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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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1. That every Godly man is a blessing in the place where be lives, and his Death is a loss. It is the wise mans observation, Prov. 12 26. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour. And the more worth there is in any thing, the greater damage is sustained in the losing of it. The Saints are called the excellent that are on the earth, Psal. 16.3. Whenas ungodly men are said to be vile, and are compared to dross, and to chaff, which are contemptible. Of what esteem such men are with God, and how profitable they are to a people among whom they dwell, may be remarked, in that ten such would have kept off vengeance from destroying Sodom it self: Gen. 18.32. I will not destroy it for tens sake. These are they unto whom God hath respect, and not only do they pray heartily and importunately for their people, but they have an interest in ⟨p. 16⟩Heaven, and God neareth their prayers, Isa. 66 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. And therefore, let these be never so obscure, carry never so mean a part among men, be little noticed, but rather despised by their Neighbours, yet when they die, the places they lived in are sufferers by it; on which account we find the Psalmist so expostulating; Psal. 12.1. Help, Lord, for the Godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail from among the Children of men.
1. That every Godly man is a blessing in the place where be lives, and his Death is a loss. It is the wise mans observation, Prov. 12 26. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour. And the more worth there is in any thing, the greater damage is susteined in the losing of it. The Saints are called the excellent that are on the earth, Psal. 16.3. Whenas ungodly men are said to be vile, and are compared to dross, and to chaff, which are contemptible. Of what esteem such men are with God, and how profitable they are to a people among whom they dwell, may be remarked, in that ten such would have kept off vengeance from destroying Sodom it self: