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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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2. Stars are not subject unto such mutation as sublunary Bodies are. They are of perpetual duration, and therefore it is a phrase in Scripture, as the days of heaven, to intimate perpetual duration. The Stars are by the Hebrews called by that name of Chochabim, by Antiphrasis, because they are lights that never shall be extinguished, they have been shining in the Heavens ever since the first Creation, and probably will continue to be there when this Earth shall perish▪ But Christ is more immutable than any Star […] heaven Joh 12 34. The Jews said, we have […] out of the Law that Christ abides for ever; […] ⟨p. 68⟩less their meaning was that they had read out of the 110•h Psalm, that Christ is a Priest for ever: Unto the Son of God it has been said, Thy Throne is for ever and ever, thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail, Heb. 1.8, 12 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to day and for ever. So then he is fi•l• resembled to a Star, in regard of his immutable Being
2. Stars are not subject unto such mutation as sublunary Bodies are. They are of perpetual duration, and therefore it is a phrase in Scripture, as the days of heaven, to intimate perpetual duration. The Stars are by the Hebrews called by that name of Chochabim, by Antiphrasis, because they are lights that never shall be extinguished, they have been shining in the Heavens ever since the first Creation, and probably will continue to be there when this Earth shall perish▪ But Christ is more immutable than any Star 〈…〉 heaven Ioh 12 34. The Iews said, we have 〈…〉 out of the Law that Christ abides for ever; 〈…〉 ⟨p. 68⟩less their meaning was that they had read out of the 110•h Psalm, that Christ is a Priest for ever: Unto the Son of God it has been said, Thy Throne is for ever and ever, thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail,