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Blessed unions. An union with the son of God by faith. And, an union…
Blessed unions. An union with the son of God by faith. And, an union in the church of God by love, importunately pressed; in a discourse which makes divers offers, for those unions; together with a copy of those articles, where-upon a most happy union, has been lately made between those two eminent parties in England, which have now changed the names of Presbyterians, and Congregationals, for that of United Brethren. / By Cotton Mather ; [Six lines from Mead]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1692
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 do ingenuously and sorrowfully confess, That I cannot fully Explain that great UNION which we have with our Lord Jesus Christ. For a full Delineation ⟨p. 12⟩of it, I must adjourn you till w•• have [And O our God, Give it unto us!] a Joyful meeting in the Kingdom of our God. Our Lord ha's told us, in Jo•. 14. 20. At that Day, ye shall know, tha• I am in my Father, and you in me, and I […] you. Neighbours, At that Day, whe• the Free Grace of God shall fetch away the Spirits which now manage these Crazy Limbs, to the Gardens into which the Lord Jesus ha's now with-drawn Himself; A• that Day, when the Rich Grace of God shall Raise these Bodies of our Humiliation out of our Graves, to make a vast Army whereof the Lord Jesus is to be the Standard-bearer; (Allow me the Tears which now fall at the Hopes of That Day!) Then, if you as […] me, What it is to be United unto the Lord Jesus Christ? Some Rare, some New, some Adequate Things may Then be said upon it. And yet in the mean Time, even, At this Day, it may be a little Stammered at.
I do ingenuously and sorrowfully confess, That I cannot fully Explain that great UNION which we have with our Lord Jesus Christ. For a full Delineation ⟨p. 12⟩of it, I must adjourn you till w•• have [And O our God, Give it unto us!] a Joyful meeting in the Kingdom of our God. Our Lord ha's told us, in Jo•. 14. 20. At that Day, ye shall know, tha• I am in my Father, and you in me, and I 〈…〉 you. Neighbours, At that Day, whe• the Free Grace of God shall fetch away the Spirits which now manage these Crazy Limbs, to the Gardens into which the Lord Jesus ha's now with-drawn Himself; A• that Day, when the Rich Grace of God shall Raise these Bodies of our Humiliation out of our Graves, to make a vast Army whereof the Lord Jesus is to be the Standard-bearer; (Allow me the Tears which now fall at the Hopes of That Day!) Then, if you as me, What it is to be United unto the Lord Jesus Christ? Some Rare, some New, some Adaequate Things may Then be said upon it. And yet in the mean Time, even, At this Day, it may be a little Stammer'd at.