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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.
6. When the Morning Star appears the darkest time of the Night is over. The Morning Star appears at the end of the night. So did Christ appear at the end of the Jewish world, Heb 9 28. He has appeared in the end of the world; as the morning Star does appear in the end of the night. The legal Dispensation was a dark dispensation, and when that was just ended, Christ appeared, and that night of darkness which was on the world, vanished presently on his appearing, 1 Joh. 2▪ 8. The darkness is passed away and now the true light shineth. The darkness of ignorance that was on the world, the darkness of Judaism and Heathenism, is wonderfully passed away, & Christ in his Gospel is the true light that shines. This Star is to be seen in the Morning Even so there is a blessed Morning that will be here over a little while, when all men shall see this bright Morning Star, namely the Morning of the Resurrection, when the night of Death is past, and all Believers shall come out of the Land of darkness, ⟨p. 75⟩when the Resurrection World shall take place, Christ will lighten the whole earth with his glory.
6. When the Morning Star appears the darkest time of the Night is over. The Morning Star appears at the end of the night. So did Christ appear at the end of the Jewish world, Heb 9 28. He has appeared in the end of the world; as the morning Star does appear in the end of the night. The legal Dispensation was a dark dispensation, and when that was just ended, Christ appeared, and that night of darkness which was on the world, vanished presently on his appearing, 1 Ioh. 2▪ 8. The darkness is passed away and now the true light shineth. The darkness of ignorance that was on the world, the darkness of Iudaism and Heathenism, is wonderfully pass•d away, & Christ in his Gospel is the true light that shipes. This Star is to be seen in the Morning Even so there is a blessed Morning that will be here over a little while, when all men shall see this bright Morning Star, namely the Morning of the Resurrection, when the night of Death is past, and all Believers shall come out of the Land of darkness,