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The day of trouble is near. Two sermons wherein is showed, what are the…The day of trouble is near. Two sermons wherein is shewed, what are the…
The day of trouble is near. Two sermons wherein is showed, what are the signs of a day of trouble being near. And particularly, what reason there is for New-England to expect a day of trouble. Also what is to be done, that we may escape these things which shall come to pass. Preached (the 11th day of the 12th month, 1673. Being a day of humiliation in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, teacher of that church. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts]The day of trouble is near. Two sermons wherein is shewed, what are the signs of a day of trouble being near. And particularly, what reason there is for New-England to expect a day of trouble. Also what is to be done, that we may escape these things which shall come to pass. Preached (the 11th day of the 12th moneth, 1673. Being a day of humiliation in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, teacher of that church. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1674
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.
3. The Lord in afflicting his people, aimeth at their Correction. Hence affliction is called a Rod, Ezek, 21, 10. It is the Rod of my son, contemning every tree. Israel was Gods son, as the Lord said to Pharaoh, Israel is my son▪ my first-born; now the Chaldeans were a Rod, whereby God scourged that son of his. It is true, that personal afflictions oftentimes come only or chiefly in a way of Trial, but public Calamities are wont to come as Corrections and just Punishments for sin: Jer. 30.15. Why criest thou for thine affliction? for the multitude of thine iniquities, because thy sins were increased, have I done these things unto thee. And to the like purpose doth the Lord speak by the Prophet Micah, Chap. 1. ver. 5. For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel.
3. The Lord in afflicting his people, aimeth at their Correction. Hence affliction is called a Rod, Ezek, 21, 10. It is the Rod of my son, contemning every tree. Israel was Gods son, as the Lord said to Pharaoh, Israel is my son▪ my first-born; now the Caldeans were a Rod, whereby God scourged that son of his. It is true, that personal afflictions oftentimes come onely or chiefly in a way of Trial, but publick Calamities are wont to come as Corrections and just Punishments for sin: Ier. 30.15. Why criest thou for thine affliction? for the multitude of thine iniquities, because thy sins were increased, have I done these things unto thee. And to the like purpose doth the Lord speak by the Prophet Micah, Chap. 1. ver. 5. For the transgression of Iacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel.
Quest. But you will say, What sins are they for which God is wont to bring days of trouble upon his people?
Quest. But you will say, What sins are they for which God is wont to bring dayes of trouble upon his people?