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Heavens alarm to the world. Or A sermon wherein is showed, that fearful sights…Heavens alarm to the world. Or A sermon wherein is shewed, that fearful sights…
Heavens alarm to the world. Or A sermon wherein is showed, that fearful sights and signs in heaven are the presages of great calamities at hand. By Increase Mather; teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Eleven lines of Scripture texts]Heavens alarm to the world. Or A sermon wherein is shewed, that fearful sights and signs in heaven are the presages of great calamities at hand. By Increase Mather; teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Eleven lines of Scripture texts]
printed by John Foster, 1681
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.
I Conclude with a word of Application. Nor would I speak any thing but the words of truth and soberness, as becometh a Messenger of Christ to do, when speaking in his Name.
I Conclude with a word of Application. Nor would I speak any thing but the words of truth and soberness, as becometh a Messenger of Christ to doe, when speaking in his Name.
USE. Let us hence be exhorted to approve our selves, as those that are under the solemn awful Warnings of God ought to do. I need not say, (for every one knoweth it) that there is a fearful fight and sign appearing in the heavens. Such a formidable. Blazing Star, as that the like hath seldom been observed. It concerns us then, to hearken to the voice of the Lord therein, who by such tremendous sights is speaking awfully to the children of men. Heathen Heavens Alarm this day. You will say, But what should we now do? What doth the Lord expect from us, when there are such dreadful Presages of evils coming upon the world?
USE. Let us hence be exhorted to approve our selves, as those that are under the solomn awfull Warnings of God ought to doe. I need not say, (for every one knoweth it) that there is a fearful fight and sign appearing in the heavens. Such a formidable. Blazing Star, as that the like hath seldom been observed. It concerns us then, to hearken to the voice of the Lord therein, who by such tremendous sights is speaking awfully to the children of men. Hearthen Heavens Alarm this day. You will say, But what should we now doe? What doth the Lord expect from us, when there are such dreadful Presages of evils coming upon the world?
Answ. 1. It now concerns us to be awakened out of all security. That's one of Gods ends, (his declared end) in causing such fearful Sights to be taken notice of, that so he might awaken a secure sleeping World. And indeed, the Lord, manifests his goodness and compassion towards sinful Creatures therein. It was a pious speech of that