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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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The Conclusion of all was, I was resolved to pray for the Spirit, and not to give the Lord over for it.
Dec. 18. I saw it my Duty so to lament my Sin, as that my Sorrow should swallow up all the Joy I took in any Thing in this World. And here I remembered what it was to afflict one's Soul; viz. To make Sin as bitter as Affliction, and to make it my Affliction.
Dec. 18. I saw it my Duty so to lament my Sin, as that my Sorrow should swallow up all the Joy I took in any Thing in this World. And here I remembred what it was to afflict one's Soul; viz. To make Sin as bitter as Affliction, and to make it my Affliction.
Dec. 20. I saw my Evil, (1) That I had much ado to see my Sin; (2) But much more difficult was it to mourn for it, as my Death, and to be in Travail with it, and in Pangs and Sorrows for it, that I might be delivered out of it.
I saw also on the Sabbath, viz. the Day before, Dec. 20, How my Heart gathered Evil in every Place, as Psal. 57