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A sermon wherein is showed that the church of God is sometimes a subject…A sermon wherein is shewed that the church of God is sometimes a subject…
A sermon wherein is showed that the church of God is sometimes a subject of great persecution; preached on a public fast at Boston in New-England: occasioned by the tidings of a great persecution raised against the Protestants in France. / By Increase Mather, teacher to a church of Christ. ; [Eight lines of quotations]A sermon wherein is shewed that the church of God is sometimes a subject of great persecution; preached on a publick fast at Boston in New-England: occasioned by the tidings of a great persecution raised against the Protestants in France. / By Increase Mather, teacher to a church of Christ. ; [Eight lines of quotations]
printed for Samuel Sewall, 1682
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.
That there will a Time come, when the Church of God upon Earth shall enjoy glorious Prosperity and Dominion, is a great, and a Scripture-Truth. The greatness of the Kingdom (not in, but) under the whole Heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High. Dan 7. 27. There shall be no more a pricking Briar, or a grieving Thorn to the House of Israel, of all that are round about them. Ezek. 28. 24. The Man of the Earth shall no more oppress. Psal. 10. 18. It is not said that we do, 1but that we shall reign on Earth. Rev. 5. 10. But to expect this before the creation of the New world (that New Heaven and New Earth, wherein Righteousness shall dwell) So much celebrated by the Holy Prophets and Apostles & in the Book of Revelation; seems to be unscriptural, & Irrational. It concerns us in this Age, not to dream of an Earthly Kingdom (as the Disciples sometimes did, & we are too apt to do.) but rather to think of going by the Cross unto the Crown; as we see others are doing before us.
THat there will a Time come, when the Church of God upon Earth shall enjoy gloriose Prosperity and Dominion, is a great, and a Scripture-Truth. The greatness of the Kingdome (not in, but) under the whole Heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High. Dan 7. 27. There shall be no more a pricking Briar, or a grieving Thorn to the Hous of Israel, of all that are round about them. Ezek. 28. 24. The Man of the Earth shall no more oppress. Psal. 10. 18. It is not said that we do, 1but that we shall reign on Earth. Rev. 5. 10. But to expect this before the creation of the New world (that New Heaven and New Earth, wherein Righteousness shall dwell) So much celebrated by the Holy Prophets and Apostles & in the Book of Revelation; seems to be unscriptural, & Irrational. It concerns us in this Age, not to dream of an Earthly Kingdome (as the Disciples sometimes did, & we are too apt to do.) but rather to think of going by the Cross unto the Crown; as we see others are doing before us.