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The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurred, first…The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurr'd, first…
The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurred, first in the protections, and then in the afflictions, of New-England. : With a representation of certain matters calling for the singular attention of that country. Made at Boston-lecture, in the audience of the great and General Assembly of the province of the Massachusett-Bay, June 7. 1694. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines from Samuel]The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurr'd, first in the protections, and then in the afflictions, of New-England. : With a representation of certain matters calling for the singular attention of that country. Made at Boston-lecture, in the audience of the great and General Assembly of the province of the Massachusett-Bay, June 7. 1694. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines from Samuel]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1694
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The Name of EZEKIEL, Signifies, The […] of God; A Name w•ll beseeming ⟨p. 6⟩an Ambassador of Heaven; and, As was his Name, so was He, for his becoming Fortitude, in his Witnessing for God against an Apostatizing People One of the Ancients has told us, That, he was Martyred and Murdered, for his Reproving of an uncontrollable Sin, in some of the Rulers: And another of the Ancients ha's told us How? He was Dragged upon the Stones, till his Brains were dashed out. A Proportion of such usage must be Expected by all that will contend for God, with a due Fortitude, and Fidelity.
The Name of EZEKI•L, Signifies, The 〈…〉 of God; A Name w•ll beseeming ⟨p. 6⟩an Embassadour of Heaven; and, As was his Name, so was He, for his becoming Fortitude, in his Witnessing for God against an Apostatizing People One of the Ancients has told us, That, he was Martyred and Murdered, for his Reproving of an uncontrouleable Sin, in some of the Rulers: And another of the Ancients ha's told us How? He was Dragg'd upon the Stones, till his Brains were dashed out. A Proportion of such usage must be Expected by all that will contend for God, with a due Fortitude, and Fidelity.
Jeremiah and Ezekiel were contemporaries in several Countries; and such was their work, that both of them needed the Encouragement of a Contemporary Prophet. Indeed▪ That a Testimony for God, may be Effectually Delivered and Entertained, there had need be more than One, concurring to the Testimony. But now Ezekiel seems to be, both more Glorious in his Visions, and more Terrible in his Threatenings, than Jeremiah; and both of those ▪ as well Terrible Threatenings, as Glorious Visions, do notably Occur, in the Chapter now before us.