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Ichabod. Or, A discourse, showing what cause there is to fear that the glory…Ichabod. Or, A discourse, shewing what cause there is to fear that the glory…
Ichabod. Or, A discourse, showing what cause there is to fear that the glory of the Lord, is departing from New-England. Delivered in two sermons, / by Increase Mather ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]Ichabod. Or, A discourse, shewing what cause there is to fear that the glory of the Lord, is departing from New-England. Delivered in two sermons, / by Increase Mather ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Timothy Green, 1702
Title page typeset from the transcription.
ICHABOD, OR, The GLORY Departing FROM New England › Sermon 2 › USE.
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1. Let the Life and Power of Godliness be revived. That has been the singular Glory of New-England: The generality of the First Planters were men Eminent for Godliness. We are the Posterity of the Good, Old Puritan Nonconformists in England, who were a Strict and Holy people. Such were our Fathers who followed the Lord into this wilderness, when it was a Land not sown. Oh! That the present and succeeding Generations in New-England might be like the First Generation of Christians, who transplanted and settled themselves in this part of the world. Then might we with Confidence pray and believe that God would accomplish for us, that which Solomon prayed for in the behalf of his People. 1 King. 8.57. The Lord our God be with us as He was with our Fathers, Let Him not leave us nor forsake us. Yea, Let us be as our Fathers were, as to Holiness in all manner of Conversation, and the Lord our God will be▪ with us as He was with them. We shall have the same Glory remaining with us which they had.
1. Let the Life and Power of Godliness be revived. That has been the singular Glory of New-England: The generality of the First Planters were men Eminent for Godliness. We are the Posterity of the Good, Old Puritan Nonconformists in England, who were a Strict and Holy people. Such were our Fathers who followed the Lord into this wilderness, when it was a Land not sown. Oh! That the present and succeeding Generations in New-England might be like the First Generation of Christians, who transplanted and settled themselves in this part of the world. Then might we with Confidence pray and believe that God would accomplish for us, that which Solomon pray'd for in the behalf of his People. 1 King. 8.57. The Lord our God be with us as He was with our Fathers, Let Him not leave us nor forsake us. Yea, Let us be as our Fathers were, as to Holiness in all manner of Conversation, and the Lord our God will be▪ with us as He was with them. We shall have the same Glory remaining with us which they had.