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Prognostics of impending calamities. Delivered in a sermon preached on the lecture at Boston,…Prognosticks of impending calamities. Delivered in a sermon preached on the lecture at Boston,…
Prognostics of impending calamities. Delivered in a sermon preached on the lecture at Boston, July 17. 1701. Occasioned by the death of the truly Honourable, William Stoughton Esq. lieutenant governor, &c. of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [One line from Ecclesiastes]Prognosticks of impending calamities. Delivered in a sermon preached on the lecture at Boston, July 17. 1701. Occasioned by the death of the truly Honourable, William Stoughton Esq. lieutenant governour, &c. of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [One line from Ecclesiastes]
Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1701
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Prognostics OF Impending Calamities.Prognosticks OF Impending Calamities.
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.
2 And thou shalt be gathered to thy Grave in Peace.] To be gathered to his Grave, intends, ⟨p. 6⟩that he should have a funeral bestowed on him; and he had a very honourable one, as is recorded in, 2 Chron. 35.24, 25. But it maybe here demurred, how this promise was fulfilled, that he should be gathered in Peace, whereas he was slain in battle? Some interpret it, that he dyed in Peace with God, and so entered into everlasting Peace, which is true and not hence to be excluded, yet it is not the whole truth of it. Others therefore generally understand it of the public Peace of the Nation, which was not at that time embroiled in War; and both of these may be taken in conjunction: and we may learn from it, That let a man die a natural or violent Death, yet if he be reconciled to God, he dies in Peace. As also, That it is a favour to live and die in times of public Tranquility. Hezekiah thought it to be so, 2 King 20.19 Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
2 And thou shalt be gathered to thy Grave in Peace.] To be gathered to his Grave, intends, ⟨p. 6⟩that he should have a funeral bestowed on him; and he had a very honourable one, as is recorded in, 2 Chron. 35.24, 25. But it maybe here demurred, how this promise was fulfilled, that he should be gathered in Peace, whereas he was slain in battel? Some interpret it, that he dyed in Peace with God, and so entred into everlasting Peace, which is true and not hence to be excluded, yet it is not the whole truth of it. Others therefore generally understand it of the publick Peace of the Nation, which was not at that time embroiled in War; and both of these may be taken in conjunction: and we may learn from it, That let a man dy a natural or violent Death, yet if he be reconciled to God, he dies in Peace. As also, That it is a favour to live and dy in times of publick Tranquility. Hezekiah thought it to be so, 2 King 20.19 Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?