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The First PRINCIPLES OF THE ORACLES OF GOD. Collected by THOMAS SHEPHERD, Sometimes of Emanuel College in Cambridge, Now Preacher of Gods Word in New-England.HEB. 5. 12. For when for the time ye ought to be Teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which be the first Principles of the Oracles of God; and are be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.LONDON, Printed for John Rothwel. 1655.The First PRINCIPLES OF THE ORACLES OF GOD. Collected by THOMAS SHEPHARD, Sometimes of Emanuel College in Cambridge, Now Preacher of Gods Word in New-England.HEB. 5. 12. For when for the time ye ought to be Teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which be the first Principles of the Oracles of God; and are be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.LONDON, Printed for Iohn Rothwel. 1655.Title page, as transcribed: The First PRINCIPLES OF THE ORACLES OF GOD. Collected by THOMAS SHEPHERD, Sometimes of Emanuel College in Cambridge, Now Preacher of Gods Word in New-England. — HEB. 5. 12. For when for the time ye ought to be Teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which be the first Principles of the Oracles of God; and are be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. — LONDON, Printed for John Rothwel. 1655.The First PRINCIPLES OF THE ORACLES OF GOD. Collected by THOMAS SHEPHARD, Sometimes of Emanuel College in Cambridge, Now Preacher of Gods Word in New-England. — HEB. 5. 12. For when for the time ye ought to be Teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which be the first Principles of the Oracles of God; and are be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. — LONDON, Printed for Iohn Rothwel. 1655.

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A59663

The first principles of the oracles of God collected

The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shepherd ...The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shephard ...

Thomas Shepard 1605–1649

London: printed for John Rothwel, 1655

[5], 17 p. · 6.6k words · Wing S3112 · ESTC R37142

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Contents 136

Title page3
Imprimatur2
To the readerTO THE CHRISTIAN READER:7
To the readerChristian Reader,3
THE SUM OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION, In way of Question and Answer.pp. 1–17326
Partpp. 1–465
Quest. What is the best and last end of Man?Quest. WHat is the best and last end of Man?pp. 12
Q. How is man to live unto God?pp. 14
Q. What is faith in God?pp. 12
Q. What is God?2

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Q. What are Gods back-parts?

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Q. What is Gods sufficiency?2

Q. Wherein stands and appears Gods sufficiency?3

Q. What is Gods Essence?2

Q. Can you sufficiently conceive of the Glory of this one most pure…Q. Can you sufficiently conceive of the Glory of this one most pure Essence, by one act of Faith?2

Q. What are Gods attributes?2

Q. How many kinds of attributes are there?4

Q. By what attributes know you what God is?Q. By what attr•butes know you what God is?2

Q. By what attributes do you understand who God is?3

Q. What attributes show how great a God he is?Q. What attributes shew how great a God he is?3

Q. What are those attributes which show what a manner of God he is?Q. What are those attributes which shew what a manner of God he is?pp. 34

Q. What are his faculties?pp. 33

Q. What are the virtues of those Faculties?Q. What are the vertues of those Faculties?pp. 34

Q. What are his subsistences or persons?pp. 32

Q. What are those Relative properties?pp. 35

Q. How many persons learn you from hence to be in God?pp. 35

Q. Are these three Persons three distinct Gods?pp. 32

Q. If every Person be God, how can they be distinct. Persons, and n…Q. If every Person be God, how can they be distinct. Persons, and not distinct Gods?pp. 3–42

Q. If these three Persons be but one God, what follows from hence?pp. 42

Now concerning the works of God.pp. 4–656

Q. Thus much concerning Gods sufficiency, What i• his efficiency?pp. 42

Q. What of God shines forth, and are you to behold in his Efficiency?pp. 44

Q. What is Gods Omnipotency?pp. 42

Q. What is Gods Decree?pp. 42

Q. What attributes or glory of God appear in his Decree?pp. 44

Q. What is Gods Counsell?pp. 42

Q What is Gods Wisdom?pp. 4–52

Q. What is the good pleasure of Gods will?pp. 52

Q. What learn you from hence?pp. 52

Q What is the Co-operations of the three Persons in Gods Efficiency?pp. 52

Q. If they work the same thing together, How is it that some works…Q. If they work the same thing together, How is it that some works are attributed to God the Father, as Creation; some to the Son, as Redemption; some to the…pp. 52

Q. What is God the Fathers distinct manner of working?pp. 52

Q. What is God the Sons manner of working?pp. 52

Q. What is the holy Gosts manner of working?pp. 52

Q. Wherein doth Gods efficiency or working appear?pp. 54

Q. What is his creation?pp. 52

Q. Did the Lord make the world in an instant?pp. 62

Q. When did the Lord make the third heaven, with the Angels their i…Q. When did the Lord make the third heaven, with the Angels their inhabitants?pp. 62

Q. What is the creation of the third heaven?pp. 62

Q. What is the creation of the Angels?Q. VVhat is the creation of the Angels?pp. 62

Q. When did God create man?pp. 62

Q. How did God create man?pp. 62

Q. What is the Image of God wherein he was made?pp. 62

Q. What became of man being thus made?pp. 62

Partpp. 6–13124

Q. What is his Providence?pp. 62

Q. How is Gods Providence distinguished?pp. 73

Q. Wherein is his Providence seen?pp. 73

Q. Doth God govern all creatures alike?pp. 72

Q. What of Gods Providence appears in his special government of man?Q. What of Gods Providence appears in his speciall government of man?pp. 73

Q. Concerning mans fall, what are you to observe therein?pp. 73

Q. Was this so great a sin to eat of the forbidden fruit?pp. 72

Q. What are the causes of this transgression?pp. 72

Q. What are the blameable causes?pp. 7–83

Q. What is the Devil?pp. 82

Q. What are the effects and fruits of this transgression?pp. 83

Q. What are the particular punishments insllcted on the causes of t…Q. What are the particular punishments insllcted on the causes of this sin?pp. 82

Q. What is sin?pp. 82

Q. What is Original and Actual sin?pp. 83

Q. What death is that God inflicts on man for sin?pp. 83

Q Is there no beginning of this death, as there is of the other in…Q Is there no beginning of this death, as there is of the other in this life?pp. 85

Q. What of Gods Attributes shine forth here?4

Q. Is this sin, and the punishment of it derived to all mens postet…Q. Is this sin, and the punishment of it derived to all mens postetity?2

Q. How is it propagated?2

Q. Why should Adams sin be imputed to all his posterity?2

Q. Thus have you seen mans apostasy from God, What is his recovery?Q. Thus have you seen mans apostacy from God, What is his recovery?2

Q. How are we brought into favour, and what are the parts of this r…Q. How are we brought into favour, and what are the parts of this recovery?4

Q. What is Redemption?2

Q. Who is this Redeemer?2

Q. Why is he God-Man?pp. 102

Q. What are those three Offices of Christ?pp. 104

Q. How hath Christ Jesus made satisfaction?pp. 102

Q. What did Gods Justice require of man?pp. 103

Q. What follows Christs Humiliation?pp. 102

Q. What is the first degree of Christs Exaltation?pp. 102

Q. What is the second degree of Christs Exaltation?pp. 102

Q. What is the third degree of his exaltation?pp. 10–112

Q. What is the fourth and last degree of his exaltation?pp. 112

Q. Thus much of Redemption, the first part of his Recovery. What is…Q. Thus much of Redemption, the first part of his Recovery. What is application?pp. 112

Q. What is the Church?pp. 112

Q. How doth the Spirit make application to the Church?pp. 113

Q. What is this Union?Q. What is this Vnion?pp. 112

Q. How doth the Spirit make this Union?Q. How doth the Spirit make this Vnion?pp. 113

Q. What are the Parts of the Preparation of the Soul so Christ?pp. 113

Q. Wh•t a•e the parts of Vocation of the Soul to Christ?pp. 11–123

Q. Thus much of our Union. What is the communion of Christs benefit…Q. Thus much of our Union. What is the communion of Christs benefits unto the Soul?pp. 122

Q. What is the first of those benefits we do enjoy from Christ?pp. 122

Q. What difference is there between Justification, and Sanctification?pp. 123

Q. What is the second benefit next in order to Justification, which…Q. What is the second benefit next in order to Justification, which the faithful receive from Christ?Q. What is the second benefit next in order to Justification, which the faithfull receive from Christ?pp. 122

Q. What is the third benefit next unto Reconciliation?pp. 122

Q. What is the fourth benefit next to Adoption?pp. 122

Q. What follows from this Mortification and Vivification?pp. 132

Q. What is the fifth and last benefit next unto Sanctification?pp. 132

Q. What is the first degree of Glorification in this life?pp. 132

Q. What is the second degree in the world to come?pp. 132

Partpp. 13–1531

Q. What is the second part, viz. our Observance?pp. 132

Q. Wherein consists our observance of God?pp. 132

Q. Wherein consists our Moral observance of God?pp. 133

Q. Is there any use of the Law to a Christian?pp. 13–142

Q. Why is not a Christian so under the Law as a Covenant of life, s…Q. Why is not a Christian so under the Law as a Covenant of life, so as if he breaks it by the least sin he shall die for it?pp. 142

Q. Can any man keep the Law perfectly in this life?pp. 142

Q. What befal• the unregenerate upon their disobedience unto it?pp. 142

Q. What befalls the regenerate after their breach of the Law, and im…Q. What befals the regenerate after their breach of the Law, and im…Q. What befalls the regenerate after their breach of the Law, and imperfect obedience unto it?Q. What befals the regenerate after their breach of the Law, and imperfect obedience unto it?pp. 142

Q. What is that imperfect obedience of Believers which is accepted?pp. 145

Q. How is the Law, or ten Commandments divided?pp. 142

Q. What rules are you to observe to understand the Moral Law?pp. 14–156

Partpp. 15–1747

Q. What is our ceremonial observance?Q. What is our ceremoniall observance?pp. 152

Q What is a Sacrament?pp. 152

Q. Which are the Sacraments?pp. 152

Q. What is the external sensible part of Baptism?Q. What is the externall sensible part of Baptism?pp. 152

Q. What is the inward and spiritual part of Baptism, signified, ex…Q. What is the inward and spirituall part of Baptism, signified, ex…Q. What is the inward and spiritual part of Baptism, signified, exhibited, and sealed thereby?Q. What is the inward and spirituall part of Baptism, signified, exhibited, and sealed thereby?pp. 154

Q. What follows from hence?pp. 153

Q. What is the external and sensible part of the Lords Supper?Q. What is the externall and sensible part of the Lords Supper?pp. 152

Q What is the inward and spiritual part of it, signified, sealed, a…Q What is the inward and spiritual part of it, signified, sealed, and exhibited thereby?pp. 15–162

Q. What follows from hence?pp. 164

Q. Ought not the Sacrament to be administered to carnal people, if t…Q. Ought not the Sacrament to be administred to carnal people, if t…Q. Ought not the Sacrament to be administered to carnal people, if they have been baptized?Q. Ought not the Sacrament to be administred to carnal people, if they have been baptized?pp. 162

Q. Where are Believers, who have right unto this Sacrament, to seek…Q. Where are Believers, who have right unto this Sacrament, to seek fruition from it?pp. 162

Q What Members ought every particular visible Church to consist of?pp. 162

Q. But do not Hypocrites, and no true Members of Christ creep in?pp. 162

Q. Are these Members bound only to cleave to Christ their head by F…Q. Are these Members bound only to cleave to Christ their head by Faith?pp. 162

Q. What benefits are there by joining thus to a particular Church?Q. What benefits are there by joyning thus to a particular Church?pp. 16–177

Q. Are there not some who never find these benefits?pp. 172

Q. What are the miseries of those who carelessly, and wilfully despi…Q. What are the miseries of those who carelesly, and wilfully despi…Q. What are the miseries of those who carelessly, and wilfully despise, and so refuse to join to Gods Church?Q. What are the miseries of those who carelesly, and wilfully despise, and so refuse to joyn to Gods Church?pp. 172

Q. What therefore ought people chiefly to labour for, and to hold f…Q. What therefore ought people chiefly to labour for, and to hold forth unto the Church, that so they may be joined to it?Q. What therefore ought people chiefly to labour for, and to hold forth unto the Church, that so they may be joyned to it?pp. 173

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Title as printed: The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shepherd ...The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shephard ...
Author: Thomas Shepard 1605–1649
Place: London
Bookseller: John Rothwel
Year: 1655
Imprint: London : Printed for John Rothwel, 1655.
Size: [5], 17 p.
Words: 6,586
Catalogue: Wing S3112 · ESTC R37142
Text: EEBO-TCP A59663
Notes: Appended to his Theses sabbaticae. 1655, with continuous register and separate paging.
Reproduction of original in Duke University Library.
Licence: CC0 1.0 (TCP transcription); underlying work in the public domain

Transcription: EEBO-TCP A59663