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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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September 17. On Friday-Night, I wished that Christ would break out in greater Glory to my Child than he had done to my self; which gave me Matter to enquire, whether Christ had appeared to me in Glory, or no? And I saw, that then Christ breaks out in his Glory, when he so shows himself as that he spoils the Creature of all his Glorying, and makes him poor in Spirit, and so to see all his Good in Christ and there into Glory.
September 17. On Friday-Night, I wished that Christ would break out in greater Glory to my Child than he had done to my self; which gave me Matter to enquire, whether Christ had appeared to me in Glory, or no? And I saw, that then Christ breaks out in his Glory, when he so shews himself as that he spoils the Creature of all his Glorying, and makes him poor in Spirit, and so to see all his Good in Christ and there into Glory.
Now I saw that Night (1) That all Sin was in me, and all Shame did belong to me. (2) I saw all Good in Christ, and all Glory belonging to him. Hereupon I was comforted, and hoped the Lord had showed me his Glory. And I saw an Error in my Heart; for I thought that then Christ appears in his Glory, when he affects the Heart with Wonderment at his Person by some strange Light, and so filled the Soul with glorious Activities of Grace: Whenas I saw, that was the truest sweetest Revelation of Christ's Glory, which did eclipse all my Glory, and laid a ⟨p. 49⟩Foundation of glorying only in him. And this I saw was that which is in Isa. 6. I saw my Tongue and Soul unclean, and all Good in him. Yet I saw one Part of Christ's Glory not yet revealed: For though he had so shown his Glory to me, as to damp all my own personal Glory; yet he had not so shown me his Glory, as to damp all the Glory of all the Honour and Pleasure and good Things in this World: which I therefore prayed for; for I saw Honour had a Glory.
Now I saw that Night (1) That all Sin was in me, and all Shame did belong to me. (2) I saw all Good in Christ, and all Glory belonging to him. Hereupon I was comforted, and hoped the Lord had shewed me his Glory. And I saw an Error in my Heart; for I thought that then Christ appears in his Glory, when he affects the Heart with Wonderment at his Person by some strange Light, and so filled the Soul with glorious Activities of Grace: Whenas I saw, that was the truest sweetest Revelation of Christ's Glory, which did eclipse all my Glory, and laid a