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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.
USE III. If God doth sometimes bring days of trouble upon his own people, here then is matter of solemn Awakening unto us; It concerns us well to consider, whether there be not a day of trouble near unto us. For Awakening here, I shall mention some ⟨p. 20⟩things, which look awfully upon us. Some Arguments let us here take notice of, which seem to speak as if a day of trouble were near unto us, yea and not the sounding again of the Mountains.
VSE III. If God doth sometimes bring dayes of trouble upon his own people, here then is matter of solemn Awakening unto us; It concerns us well to consider, whether there be not a day of trouble near unto us. For Awakening here, I shall mention some ⟨p. 20⟩things, which look awfully upon us. Some Arguments let us here take notice of, which seem to speak as if a day of trouble were near unto us, yea and not the sounding again of the Mountains.
1. (To begin with that which is most general) There is a day of trouble coming upon all the World; and such trouble too, as the like hath not been: for I am persuaded that Scripture is yet to be fulfilled, even that Dan. 12.1. where it is said, There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a Nation, to that same time. We are in expectation of glorious times, wherein Peace and Prosperity shall run down like a River, and like a mighty stream over all the earth; but immediately before those days, there will be such horrible Combustions and Confusions, as the like never was. It is said, Psal. 46.9. He maketh Wars to cease unto the end of the earth: but the words immediately foregoing are, Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth. Before the days come, wherein the Nations shall learn war no more, O what desolations will the Lord make in the earth? We look that the Church shall be in its Philadelphian state, when Enemies shall come and bow before the feet of Jerusalem, as Christ speaketh in his Epistle to the Church of Philadelphia, but first there will an hour of Temptation come upon all the world,