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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 Morning STAR.
Revelations XXII.16. The Bright and Morning Star.
THESE words were spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ, who knowing that men, would be apt to question the truth of the Prophesies contained in this Book, to put all out of doubt, declares that no man or Angel, but he himself was the Author of it; to intimate which is the scope of this verse, wherein Christ is described,
THESE words were spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ, who knowing that men, would be apt to question the truth of the Prophesies con•ained in this Book, to put all out of doubt, declares that no man or Angel, but he himself was the Author of it; to intimate which is the scope of this verse, wherein Christ is described,
1. From his Name Jesus, implying his being the Saviour of men. I Jesus have sent my Angel; therefore not the Angel was the Author of this Book. The Angel did only declare the M•ssage that Christ sent him with