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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.
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There are seasons when the removal of such as these is a prognostic of great Evils at the door, and ready to break in upon the Land where they have lived. It is not indeed always so, but sometimes it is otherwise: and there are the Rules for discerning of this, which it becomes all wise men to observe, that they may practice accordingly; for we are told, Prov. 27.12. The prudent foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself. It may ⟨p. 8⟩then be suitable and seasonable in such a day as this is, to make some enquiry into that Case, viz.
There are seasons when the removal of such as these is a prognostick of great Evils at the door, and ready to break in upon the Land where they have lived. It is not indeed always so, but sometimes it is otherwise: and there are the Rules for discerning of this, which it becames all wise men to observe, that they may practice accordingly; for we are told, Prov. 27.12. The prudent foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself. It may ⟨p. 8⟩then be suitable and seasonable in such a day as this is, to make some enquiry into that Case, viz.
Quest. When the removal of good men is a foreboding symptom of great miseries ready to break in upon a people.
A That this Case may be rightly stated & resolved, let these Conclusions be observed.