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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
Sermon 1: ZION the Out-cast healed of her Wounds.Sermon 1: SION the Out-cast healed of her Wounds.
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.
The Reasons of the point, are:
Reas. 1. From the Sympathy that there is between the Head and the Members. Christ is sensible of the sufferings of his Outcast. It is true, that the Out-cast doth suffer; it is a greater truth, that the God of the Out-cast suffereth. Isa. 63.9. In all their affliction, he was afflicted: it relateth to Israel in Egypt. Zech. 2.8. He that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his Eye: it relateth to the good Figs in exile. It is no little ease that our sorrows ⟨p. 4⟩touch Christ, according to Heb. 4.15. We have not an high Priest that cannot be touched, &c. What though the Out-cast suffereth for sin, yet he hath a sufferer with him: and in this respect what Paul said to his Corinthians, 2 Cor. 2.2. that doth Christ say to his Out-cast, If I make you sorry, who is he that maketh me glad, but the same that are made sorry by me?
Reas. 2. Because that Gods Name suffereth, while his Outcasts do thus suffer. Exod. 32.12. if God should destroy Israel, the Egyptians will say, For mischief hath he brought them, &c. Deut. 32.27. Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this. You remember the argument which Joshua useth, Chap. 7, 8, 9. When Israel falleth before the enemy, what wilt thou do to thy great Name? The destruction of Israel would raise a scandal to Religion, and the God of Israel.