A50133:13
Humiliations followed with deliverances a brief discourse on the matter and method of that…Humiliations follow'd with deliverances a brief discourse on the matter and method of that…
Humiliations followed with deliverances a brief discourse on the matter and method of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity accompanied and accommodated with a narrative of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives from the hands of cruel Indians and some improvement of that narrative : whereunto is added A narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.Humiliations follow'd with deliverances a brief discourse on the matter and method of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity accompanied and accommodated with a narrative of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives from the hands of cruel Indians and some improvement of that narrative : whereunto is added A narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1697
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.
In our Context, we find the People of God, beginning to Forsake the Law of the Lord: They many ways Transgressed against Him. Sad Calamity overtook them, for this their Iniquity, and Apostasy; But God blessed the Preaching of His Prophet Shemajah unto them, under this Calamity to produce a Notable Humiliation in them. The Clauses now before us, represent a blessed Effect of that Humiliation; a gracious Promise of some Deliverance ⟨p. 6⟩from Destruction, was, by that Prophet of the Lord, when they Humbled themselves, brought from the Lord unto them.
In our Context, we sind the People of God, beginning to Forsake the Law of the Lord: They many wayes Transgressed against Him. Sad Calamity overtook them, for this their Iniquity, and Apostasy; But God blessed the Preaching of His Prophet Shemajah unto them, under this Calamity to produce a Notable Humiliaiion in them. The Clauses now before us, represent a blessed Effect of that Humiliation; a gracious Promise of some Deliverance ⟨p. 6⟩from Destruction, was, by that Prophet of the Lord, when they Humbled themselves, brought from the Lord unto them.
The Truth which Lies plainly before us, is, That when a Sinful People Humble themselves before the Almighty God, it is an Hopeful and an Happy Symptom, that He will not utterly Destroy such a People.
Now, The CASE, which this Encouraging Truth, does at this Time Encourage us, to speak unto, is,