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The times of men are in the hand of God. Or A sermon occasioned…
The times of men are in the hand of God. Or A sermon occasioned by that awful providence which happened in Boston in New-England, the 4th day of the 3d month 1675. (when part of a vessel was blown up in the harbour, and nine men hurt, and three mortally wounded) wherein is showed how we should sanctify the dreadful name of God under such awful dispensations. / By Increase Mather, teacher to a Church of Christ. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The times of men are in the hand of God. Or A sermon occasioned by that awfull providence which hapned in Boston in New-England, the 4th day of the 3d moneth 1675. (when part of a vessel was blown up in the harbour, and nine men hurt, and three mortally wounded) wherein is shewed how we should sanctifie the dreadfull name of God under such awfull dispensations. / By Increase Mather, teacher to a Church of Christ. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1675
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 duration of a mans time is in Gods hand. Not only when he shall come into the world, but how long he shall continue in it▪ whether he shall be long lived or short lived. First when a man cometh into the world, no one can tell whether he shall dye in Childhood, or in Youth, or in his middle age, or in his old age, but God in whose hand is his Time knoweth how it shall be, wherefore Job saith, I will wait all the days of my [appointed time] till my change come Chap 14. v. 14. And in the fifth verse of that Chapter he saith of every man that […] days are determined the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. Not only the number of the years, but the months nay the days that every man shall live are determined by God, and beyond that time he shall not live one day. This then is Davids meaning when he saith my times are in thy hand, Thou canst make me live as long as thou wilt, notwithstanding my enemies seek for my life.
3. The duration of a mans time is in Gods hand. Not onely when he shall come into the world, but how long he shall continue in it▪ whether he shall be long lived or short lived. First when a man cometh into the world, no one can tell whether he shall dye in Childhood, or in Youth, or in his middle age, or in his old age, but God in whose hand is his Time knoweth how it shall be, wherefore Job saith, I will wait all the dayes of my [appointed time] till my change come Chap 14. v. 14. And in the fifth verse of that Chapter he saith of every man that 〈…〉 dayes are determined the number of his moneths are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. Not onely the number of the years, but the moneths nay the dayes that every man shall live are determined by God, and beyond that time he shall not live one day. This then is Davids meaning when he saith my times are in thy hand, Thou canst make me live as long as thou wilt, notwithstanding my enemyes seek for my life.