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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.
2. It Excels others in Light. The Morning S•ar viewed in the Telescope appears like an half Moon: It has such light in it, that sometimes i• has been observed to cast a Shadow. And it is often seen at mid-day when the Sun obscures the light of other Stars. But the glorious Lord Jesus Christ does excel all the Stars of God. Eminent Saints are called Stars: but Christ excels them all; He is Fairer than the Children of men, and Anointed above his fellows. The Angels are compared to Morning Stars, Job 38.7. The Morning Stars shouted for joy, that is the Angels ⟨p. 74⟩of Heaven who were made in the morning of the Creation. Angels are not to be compared with the Lord Jesus Christ; when he appears their glory disappears The Apostle uses a higher expression concerning the glory of Christ than may be used concerning any other Man or Angel in Heaven, in Heb. 1.3. He is the brightness of his Fathers glory. So then because of his brightness and glory he is fitly resembled to the Morning Star.
2. It Excels others in Light. The Morning S•ar viewed in the Telescope appears like an half Moon: It has such light in it, that sometimes i• has been observed to cast a Shadow. And it is often seen at mid-day when the Sun obscures the light of other Stars. But the glorious Lord Jesus Christ does excel all the Stars of God. Eminent Saints are called Stars: but Christ excels them all; He is Fairer than the Children of men, and Anointed above his fellows. The Angels are compared to Morning Stars, Iob 38.7. The Morning Stars shouted for joy, that is the Angels ⟨p. 74⟩of Heaven who were made in the morning of the Creation. Angels are not to be compared with the Lord Jesus Christ; when he appears their glory disappears The Apostle uses a higher expression concerning the glory of Christ than may be used concerning any other Man or Angel in Heaven, in