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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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Octob. 6. I was very sad to behold outward Wants of the Country; and what would become of me and mine, if we should want Clothes and go naked and ⟨p. 51⟩give away all to pay our Debts. Hereupon the Lord set me upon prizing of his Love, and the Lord made my Heart content with it: (1) His Love, though he denied me all Blessings, (2) Hence I desired to know it, (3) To constrain my Heart by it (4) That I might not abuse but Honour it. And there I left my self, and begged this Portion for my self, and for my Child, and for the Church; and so left them in the Lord's Bowels.—Now such was the Goodness of Christ, that when I came to hear my Father preach at Boston the Day after, my Soul was settled on the same Way again, when he preached about Contentedness: And so I was confirmed in the Faith: and so I learned how a Christian is confirmed, (1) When he hears the same Thing preached at one Time, or by one Man, confirmed again by another Man, or at another Time; (2) When he learns something privately, and then he hears the same again publicly.
Octob. 6. I was very sad to behold outward Wants of the Country; and what would become of me and mine, if we should want Cloaths and go naked and ⟨p. 51⟩give away all to pay our Debts. Hereupon the Lord set me upon prizing of his Love, and the Lord made my Heart content with it: (1) His Love, though he denied me all Blessings, (2) Hence I desired to know it, (3) To constrain my Heart by it (4) That I might not abuse but Honour it. And there I left my self, and beg'd this Portion for my self, and for my Child, and for the Church; and so left them in the Lord's Bowels.—Now such was the Goodness of Christ, that when I came to hear my Father preach at Boston the Day after, my Soul was settled on the same Way again, when he preached about Contentedness: And so I was confirmed in the Faith: and so I learned how a Christian is confirmed, (1) When he hears the same Thing preached at one Time, or by one Man, confirmed again by another Man, or at another Time; (2) When he learns something privately, and then he hears the same again publickly.