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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.
ACTS, VIII. I.
At that Time there was a Great Persecution against the Church which was at Jerusalem, &c.
The Evangelist having in the preceding Chapter set forth the History of Stephens Martyrdom, proceeds in this Chapter to relate what things were contemporary therewith, and consequent thereupon. In this Verse there are Three things mentioned as Remarkable Events which happened either at, or immediately after Stephens Death.
THe Evangelist having in the preceding Chapter sett forth the History of Stephens Martyrdome, proceeds in this Chapter to relate what things were contemporary therewith, and consequent thereupon. In this Verse there are Three things mentioned as Remarkeable Events which happened either at, or immediately after Stephens Death.
1. Sauls Consenting thereunto: So the Verse begins. And Saul was consenting unto his Death. Gr. [Greek or Hebrew], It pleased him well. The expression intimates that others liked it; and that He liked it also. He did indeed manifest his Approbation of it, both by Words, & Actions. And this is here mentioned as a thing very Observable; that the Grace of God in Converting that Saul; in causing a persecuting Saul, to become a preaching Paul, (of which in the next Chapter there is a large Account) might be rendered the more glorious, and illustrious.