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David serving his generation. Or, A sermon showing what is to be done in…David serving his generation. Or, A sermon shewing what is to be done in…
David serving his generation. Or, A sermon showing what is to be done in order to our so serving our generation, as that when we die, we shall enter into a blessed rest. (Wherein some account is given concerning many eminent ministers of Christ at London, as well as in N.E. lastly gone to their rest.) Occasioned by the death, of the Reverend Mr. John Baily, who deceased at Boston in New-England. December 12th 1697. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College. ; [Three lines from Numbers]David serving his generation. Or, A sermon shewing what is to be done in order to our so serving our generation, as that when we dy, we shall enter into a blessed rest. (Wherein some assount is given concerning many eminent ministers of Christ at London, as well as in N.E. lastly gone to their rest.) Occasioned by the death, of the Reverend Mr. John Baily, who deceased at Boston in New-England. December 12th 1697. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College. ; [Three lines from Numbers]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1698
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.
••d in so doing Served his Generation. 2 Sam. •15. There are some that bear a Sacred ••fice, whose chief Employment is in […] wherein the Souls of men are concerned. […] Generation wherein they Live will certain•• be either much the better, or much the worse […] them. If they are corrupt, they will be •••rupters of the Generation. From the Prophets ⟨p. 15⟩in Jerusalem did profaneness go forth into al• the Land. Jer. 23.15. But if they are Able and Faithful men, they will be great Blessings to the Generation. All that Live in the Age and Place with them, will have cause to bless God for them: A few such are a great Blessing to a whole Land. The Prophet Elisha was so; therefore when he was Sick of the Sickness whereof he Dyed, the King himself wept over him, saying, O my Father my Father, the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen •hereof! 2 King. 13.14. intimating that his Death would make as sore Breach upon the Land, as if the Chariots and Horsemen by whom they were defended, should be removed from them. All the Nation of Israel did more than once fare the better for a Prophet that was among them. Hos. 12.13. By a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a Prophet was he preserved. A Prophet! a Prophet! that is Eminent and Faithful; all Israel fares the better for him; he is an inexpressible Blessing to the Generation. One Justin Martyr, by writing an Apology for Christians, was a Blessing to all the Churches throughout the Roman Empire. The Ministers of the Gospel are by the Lord Jesus Christ himself resembled unto Stars, Rev. 1.20. The Seven Stars are the Angels of the Seven Churches. Stars have a great influence on the World. The Scripture speaks of the sweet influence of the