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Gods call to his people to turn unto him; together with his promise to…
Gods call to his people to turn unto him; together with his promise to turn unto them. Opened and applied in II. sermons at two public fasting-days appointed by authority. / By Mr. John Davenport: B.D. and Pastor to the First Church of Christ at Boston in New-England. ; Published by the desire of sundry friends.Gods call to his people to turn unto him; together with his promise to turn unto them. Opened and applied in II. sermons at two publick fasting-dayes appointed by authority. / By Mr. John Davenport: B.D. and Pastor to the First Church of Christ at Boston in New-England. ; Published by the desire of sundry friends.
printed by S.G. Samuel Green for John Usher of Boston, 1669
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2. That in such Times God discovereth in his own people a sinful remissness to neglect the public service of God, and to be too intent upon their own private concernments, and to satisfy themselves with such a pretence as this, We cannot help it, the Adversaries are many and potent, and the King of Persia is against the Work; therefore we will leave the public work till better times, and will mind our own houses and domesticall affairs. But God was displeased with them, and showed it by smiting them in their private advantages by the Fruits of the Earth, for their disregard of his public Worship, as the Lord told them by Haggai, Hagg. 1.4 — 12. and in two months after he sent Zechariah to encourage them to go on strenuously in the work of the Lord, that had been so long neglected by their fault.
2. That in such Times God discovereth in his own people a sinful remisness to neglect the publick service of God, and to be too intent upon their own private concernments, and to satisfie themselves with such a pretence as this, We cannot help it, the Adversaries are many and potent, and the King of Persia is against the Work; therefore we will leave the publick work till better times, and will minde our own houses and domesticall affairs. But God was displeased with them, and shewed it by smiting them in their private advantages by the Fruits of the Earth, for their disregard of his publick Worship, as the Lord told them by Haggai, Hagg. 1.4 — 12. and in two moneths after he sent Zechariah to encourage them to go on strenuously in the work of the Lord, that had been so long neglected by their fault.
In the second Verse of this Chapter he told them that God had been sore displeased with their fathers; and in the 4, 5, and 6th Verses, he tells them for what God was displeased with their fathers; and from thence infers the Exhortation in my Text, as the illative particle (Therefore) shows.