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Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
MEDITATIONS AND Spiritual Experiences OF Mr. THOMAS SHEPARD.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
July 8. I was […] to think that I had been out of my Way […] occasioning any to come to this ⟨p. 31⟩Wilderness among so many Snares. Yet considering, that through God's Providence we were fallen here; I saw it was my Duty, and purposed it should be my Work to do all that I could, and be the more earnest with God in Prayer, and to finger Fortunam, make the best of what is, because bad, at best.
July 8. I was 〈…〉 to think that I had been out of my Way 〈…〉 occasioning any to come to this ⟨p. 31⟩Wilderness among so many Snares. Yet considering, that through God's Providence we were fallen here; I saw it was my Duty, and purposed it should be my Work to do all that I could, and be the more earnest with God in Prayer, and to fingere Fortunam, make the best of what is, because bad, at best.
I saw also, how some godly Men and Friends, who, though they were sincere, yet were very weak, and could not go through the present Temptations of the Place of Wants, &c, with that Contentedness and Sweetness of Spirit, as was meet. And when I saw that possibly it might not come from Want, but Weakness of Grace only; my Bowels yearned towards Christ's weak ones, and I was secretly raised up with Hopes, that the Lord Jesus would pity them, because they were weak and faint, and would lead those gently who were with Young. And it was special Ground of Faith and Prayer for them.
I saw also, how some godly Men and Friends, who, though they were sincere, yet were very weak, and could not go thorow the present Temptations of the Place of Wants, &c, with that Contentedness and Sweetness of Spirit, as was meet. And when I saw that possibly it might not come from Want, but Weakness of Grace only; my Bowels yearned towards Christ's weak ones, and I was secretly raised up with Hopes, that the Lord Jesus would pity them, because they were weak and faint, and would lead those gently who were with Young. And it was special Ground of Faith and Prayer for them.