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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.
I saw also on the Sabbath, viz. the Day before, Dec. 20, How my Heart gathered Evil in every Place, as Psal. 57. And it gathered, either, (1) Carnal Content, or (2) Discontent, by striking upon external Objects.
Dec. 21. I saw that Man was an infinite kind of Evil, ⟨p. 73⟩when he is crossed; as in Hell, there he blasphemes because crossed. And hence Men's Sins lie hid, because not crossed.
Dec. 21. I saw that Man was an infinite kind of Evil, ⟨p. 73⟩when he is cross'd; as in Hell, there he blasphemes because cross'd. And hence Men's Sins lie hid, because not cross'd.
I saw also the Deceit of Man's Heart; which when it is very bad, then it begins to seek to be very good; if it have and feel any Good, it grows full and lifted up and loose.