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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.
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4. Want of Success when I have done my best.
I saw these and that I was to be humbled for these, I saw also many other Sins, and how the Lord might be angry. And this Day, in musing thus I saw, that when I saw God angry, I sought to pacify him by abstaining from all Sin for Time to come: But then I remembered (1) That my Righteousness could not satisfy, and that this was resting on my own Righteousness: (2) I saw I could not do it. (3) I saw, Only Christ's Righteousness ready made and already finished, fit for that Purpose—And I saw that God's afflicting me for my Sin was, not that I should go and satisfy by Reforming, but only that I might be humbled and ⟨p. 43⟩afflicted for and separated from Sin, being reconciled and made righteous by Faith on Christ, which I saw a little of that Night.
I saw these and that I was to be humbled for these, I saw also many other Sins, and how the Lord might be angry. And this Day, in musing thus I saw, that when I saw God angry, I sought to pacify him by abstaining from all Sin for Time to come: But then I remembred (1) That my Righteousness could not satisfie, and that this was resting on my own Righteousness: (2) I saw I could not do it. (3) I saw, Only Christ's Righteousness ready made and already finished, fit for that Purpose—And I saw that God's afflicting me for my Sin was, not that I should go and satisfie by Reforming, but only that I might be humbled and ⟨p. 43⟩afflicted for and separated from Sin, being reconciled and made righteous by Faith on Christ, which I saw a little of that Night.
This Day also I found my Heart very untoward and sad, and heavy by musing on many Evils to come. But I saw if I carried four Things in my Mind alway, I should be comforted.