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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 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.
Dec. 27. God humbled me in some Measure, (1) Making me see, how I deserved Death, and nothing but eternal Death; and that it belonged to me as my Due, which made me wonder I had any Mercy; (2) Making me desirous to feel Sin the greatest Evil, and to prize deliverance from it, as out of Hell.
I saw also, (1) How miserable I was, If I had no Favour; (2) How precious his Favour was; (3) How exceeding precious Christ was, by whom I came to have all Favour; and how precious his Blood was, so as I desired to rejoice in nothing, but in Christ.
FINIS.
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