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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
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We Read in the Gospel, that when the Lord Jesus Christ had taken a Text out of the Prophet Isaiah, He began His Sermon with saying, This Day is this Scripture fulfilled in your Ears, Luk. 4. 21. So let me conclude my Discourse with saying, This day, is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears, and before your eyes. For God has not only Given but Restored to New-England, Counsellors as at the Beginning. We are all greatly concerned to endeavour the Continuance of such a Favour.
We Read in the Gospel, that when the Lord Jesus Christ had taken a Text out of the Prophet Isaiah, He began His Sermon with saying, This Day is this Scripture fulfilled in your Ears, Luk. 4. 21. So let me conclude my Discourse with saying, This day, is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears, and before your eyes. For God has not only Given but Restored to New-England, Counsellers as at the Beginning. We are all greatly concerned to endeavour the Continuance of such a Favour.
You will say, What shall we do that it may be so.?
Answ. 1. Let us be careful that those sins which provoke the Lord to withhold this Mercy from his People be not found amongst us. It is sin that does provoke God to take away Good Rulers, and to send Bad ones. It is Storied that when a very Unworthy Person was Advanced to an High Station, a Religious Man Expostulating with Heaven about it, Received that Answer, that it was not because such an one was Worthy of that Place, but because that sinful people were worthy to be Punished with having so wicked a Ruler set over them. It was Certainly a True Confession which the Levites made on a Public Fast Day.