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Three choice and profitable sermons upon several texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17,…Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17,…
Three choice and profitable sermons upon several texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is showed, the Lords sovereignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...
printed by S.G. and M.I. for Hezekiah Usher of Boston, 1664
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Sounder Philosophy determines, that the excellency of Union is to be esteemed according to the dignity of the Cause. We here pass over in silence the conspiring together of the waters and dry land to make one Globe; as also that of the frame of the Heavenly and the Earthly Globe, to make one Sphere of the World. There may be found an heap of Miracles in the quiet gathering the living creatures into the Ark, and their abiding in it, where the most savage of them laid aside their savageness; being ready to acknowledge Noah for their Lord (not much otherwise then Adam in giving Names unto them) where might be seen the Wolfe standing amongst the Sheep, neither do the Flocks seem afraid of the great Lyons: These are indeed very great things; but yet if they be compared with the Myst call Union, shining forth in one of the very least of Christs Members, there would want words to express how great the distance is. To proceed therefore, if the Union of a very few Believers be of so great moment, of how great account should be the Uniting of all Protestants in the Faith? But let us here pause a while, and not think much to weigh this matter a little more seriously, and we shall find (unless we are much deceived) this very Union about which we are treating, if it be ⟨p. 7⟩without hypocrisy and deceit, but as the very off-spring and image of the Hypostatical Union, and only next unto it on Earth (as to the kind) and like unto which there will not be found any in Heaven, no not when Angelical Nature remained in its perfection. We do believe indeed, and not out of a vain conceit, That this Agreement is a bright Looking-glass made of the Blood of the Lamb, wherein Jesus himself, the Prince of so great a Peace, clearly shines forth: in passing through which also, he doth irradiate the World with its brightness, while it steadfastly beholds this clear Looking-glass, and by irradiating, ingenerates Faith therein. In which respect we need not fear to affirm, That the perpetual conjunction of all Mankind, established by the Bond of the first Covenant, would be by infinite degrees exceeded by it; That they all may be one, as thou Father in me, and I in thee, that the world may know that thou hast sent me, Joh. 17.21.
Sounder Philosophy determines, that the excellency of Union is to be esteemed according to the dignity of the Cause. We here pass over in silence the conspiring together of the waters and dry land to make one Globe; as also that of the frame of the Heavenly and the Earthly Globe, to make one Sphere of the World. There may be found an heap of Miracles in the quiet gathering the living creatures into the Ark, and their abiding in it, where the most savage of them laid aside their savageness; being ready to acknowledge Noah for their Lord (not much otherwise then Adam in giving Names unto them) where might be seen the Wolfe standing amongst the Sheep, neither do the Flocks seem affraid of the great Lyons: These are indeed very great things; but yet if they be compared with the Myst cal Union, shining forth in one of the very least of Christs Members, there would want words to express how great the distance is. To proceed therefore, if the Union of a very few Believers be of so great moment, of how great account should be the Uniting of all Protestants in the Faith? But let us here pause a while, and not think much to weigh this matter a little more seriously, and we shall finde (unless we are much deceived) this very Union about which we are treating, if it be