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The excellency of a public spirit discoursedThe excellency of a publick spirit discoursed
The excellency of a public spirit discoursed: in a sermon, preached in the audience of the General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, May 27. 1702. Being the day for election of counsellors in that province. / By Increase Mather. ; [Four lines of quotations]The excellency of a publick spirit discoursed: in a sermon, preached in the audience of the General Assembly of the province of the Masachusetts Bay in New England, May 27. 1702. Being the day for election of counsellors in that province. / By Increase Mather. ; [Four lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Nicholas Boone, 1702
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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.
The like did Elijah, when a Drought was on the Land for three years together, and the whole Country like to perish, Elijah Prayed and Prayed earnestly, and the Heavens gave Showers. So Hezekiah, when an Epidemical disease was on the People, by Prayer he prevailed with God to restore health unto his people, 2 Chron 30.20 The Lord hearkened to Hezekiah and healed the People.
2 Righteous men are Blessings by the Counsel that they give to others As D•vid said to one that gave him happy counsel, Blessed be the Lord th•• has sent thee to me, and blessed be thy advice. So there are those that will bless God for ever because of the wholesome advice which some Righteous ones have administered unto them; The advice which righteous men give others do sometimes cause them to reform their evil ways, and then they escape the judgments tha•, otherwise would overtake them Sometimes God bless•s their Counsel to the •ff•ctual Conversion of those that are instructed by them, and then they are saved not only from temporal ⟨p. 57⟩but from eternal destruction, Prov. 11.30. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth Souls is wise. By their Counsel sometimes they win Souls, and so bring them to life. Their words preserve life, as the fruit that grew on the Tree of life in Paradise should have done.
2 Righteous men are B•essings by the Counsel that they give to others As D•vid said to one that gave him happy counsel, Blessed be the Lord th has sent thee to me, and blessed be thy advice. So there are those that will bless God for ever because of the wholsome advice which some Righteous ones have administred unto them; The advice which righteous men give others doe sometimes cause them to reform their evil wayes, and then they escape the judgments tha, otherwise would overtake them Sometimes God blesss their Counsel to the ffctual Conversion of those that are instructed by them, and then they are saved not only from temporal