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The great blessing, of primitive counsellors. Discoursed in a sermon, preached in the audience…The great blessing, of primitive counsellours. Discoursed in a sermon, preached in the audience…
The great blessing, of primitive counsellors. Discoursed in a sermon, preached in the audience of the governor, Council, and representatives, of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England. May 31st. 1693. Being the day for the election of counsellors, in that province. / By Increase Mather. President of Harvard College in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston, in New-England. ; [One line epigram in Latin]The great blessing, of primitive counsellours. Discoursed in a sermon, preached in the audience of the governour, Council, and representatives, of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England. May 31st. 1693. Being the day for the election of counsellours, in that province. / By Increase Mather. President of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston, in New-England. ; [One line epigram in Latin]
Boston, : Printed and sold, by Benjamin Harris, over-against the Old-Meeting-House., 1693
Title page typeset from the transcription.
PRIMITIVE COUNSELLORS, A Great BLESSING.PRIMITIVE COUNSELLOURS, A Great BLESSING.
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.
When there are Counsellors as at the Beginning, two things usually follow, which make a people happy.
When there are Counsellers as at the Beginning, two things usually follow, which make a people happy.
1. There will be good Judges. Much of the Welfare of a People does consist in their having Able and Upright Judges, that will endeavour to approve themselves in all things like unto God, the Judge of Judges, with whom there is no Iniquity, nor Respect of persons. Hence Moses who Loved the Lords People in the Wilderness more than He Loved his own Life, out of Respect to their Welfare took of the Chief of the Tribes, Wise Men, and Known, and gave them a Commission and Instruction, to Act as Judges▪ solemnly charging them to acquit themselves as became men in their places Deut. 1. 15, 16, 16. Now if there be Counsellors as at the Beginning, there will be Judges as at the First. It cannot but be so in a Government, where no Judges are appointed but with the consent of the Council. Good Counsellors will Advise to good Judges, and good Judges will make the Land happy.
1. There will be good Judges. Much of the Welfare of a People does consist in their having Able and Upright Judges, that will endeavour to approve themselves in all things like unto God, the Judge of Judges, with whom there is no Iniquity, nor Respect of persons. Hence Moses who Loved the Lords People in the Wilderness more than He Loved his own Life, out of Respect to their Welfare took of the Chief of the Tribes, Wise Men, and Known, and gave them a Commission and Instruction, to Act as Judges▪ solemnly charging them to acquit themselves as became men in their places Deut. 1. 15, 16, 16. Now if there be Counsellers as at the Beginning, there will be Judges as at the First. It cannot but be so in a Government, where no Judges are appointed but with the consent of the Council. Good Counsellers will Advise to good Judges, and good Judges will make the Land happy.