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Returning unto God the great concernment of a covenant people. Or A sermon preached…
Returning unto God the great concernment of a covenant people. Or A sermon preached to the Second Church in Boston in New-England, March 17. 1679.80. when that church did solemnly and explicitly renew their covenant with God, and one with another. By Increase Mather teacher of that church. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1680
Returning unto God the great Concernment of a Covenant People.
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.
4. The Lords People may fall under heavy Judgements because of their Iniquity. (f)There is a falling […] Iniquity, and a falling by, for, or because of iniquity. Doubtless both are intended in the Text. Sore breaking Judgements are expressed in the Scriptures, by that of a miserable Fall, Hos. 5. 5. Israel and Ephraim shall Fall in their iniquity, Judah also shall Fall with them: Israel, or Ephraim, h. e. the ten Tribes, had the worst Fall, viz. in respect of the Assyrian Captivity, they Fell so as never to rise again: But Judah Fell also, viz. under that Judgement of the Babylonian Captivity. The saddest temporal Judgements and Desolations, may possibly overtake the People of God, inasmuch as their Sins are most dishonourable to his blessed Name. We hear the Church complaining. Is there any Sorrow like unto my Sorrow, where with the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce Anger. And the Prophet Daniel saith, Under the whole heaven ⟨p. 5⟩hath not been done, as hath been done unto Jerusalem, Now when it is so, Iniquity is the cause of it. Isa. 3. 8. Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is [Fallen] because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his Glory.
4. The Lords People may fall under heavy Judgements because of their Iniquity. (f)There is a falling 〈…〉 Iniquity, and a falling by, for, or because of iniquity. Doubtless both are intended in the Text. Sore breaking Judgements are expressed in the Scriptures, by that of a miserable Fall, Hos. 5. 5. Israel and Ephraim shall Fall in their iniquity, Judah also shall Fall with them: Israel, or Ephraim, h. e. the ten Tribes, had the worst Fall, viz. in respect of the Assyrian Captivity, they Fell so as never to rise again: But Judah Fell also, viz. under that Judgement of the Babylonian Captivity. The saddest temporal Judgements and Desolations, may possibly overtake the People of God, inasmuch as their Sins are most dishonourable to his blessed Name. We hear the Church complaining. Is there any Sorrow like unto my Sorrow, where with the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce Anger. And the Prophet Daniel saith, Under the whole heaven