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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.
I Answer.
1. Let us be Humbled for those sins that might provoke God to let loose Persecutors upon us. Some may think, the best way would be, to comply with the Adversary: But I am sure This is a better way; even to be Humbled for our sins. The wise man sales, When a mans ways please the Lord, his Enemies shall be at Peace with him. Prov. 16. 7. O Let us be Humbled for the sins already mentioned: For that Apostasy; for those Divisions; for that Formality, & Lukewarmness in Religion, which is too general among us. And let us be Humbled for one sin more. That is, Our great Unthankfulness for ⟨p. 23⟩our precious Liberties. Never any people in the world, had greater cause of Thankfulness unto God, than we have had. In respect of our Civil Liberties; wherein we have been admirably privileged; and which God his to a wonderment, continued to us. And in respect of our Spiritual Liberties; The Liberties of the Gospel of Christ, and of the House of God; which we have been blessed with. But certainly, we have not been so Thankful, as we ought to be: O be Humbled for this!
1. Let us be Humbled for those sins that might provoke God to let loose Persecutors upon us. Some may think, the best way would be, to comply with the Adversary: But I am sure This is a better way; even to be Humbled for our sins. The wise man sales, When a mans wayes please the Lord, his Enemies shall be at Peace with him. Prov. 16. 7. O Let us be Humbled for the sins already mentioned: For that Apostasy; for those Divisions; for that Formality, & Lukewarmness in Religion, which is too general among us. And let us be Humbled for one sin more. That is, Our great Unthankfulness for ⟨p. 23⟩our precious Libertyes. Never any people in the world, had greater cause of Thankfulness unto God, than we have had. In respect of our Civil Libertyes; wherein we have been admirably priviledged; and which God his to a wonderment, continued to us. And in respect of our Spiritual Libertyes; The Libertyes of the Gospel of Christ, and of the House of God; which we have been blessed with. But certainly, we have not been so Thankful, as we ought to be: O be Humbled for this!