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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
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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.
1. From the […] Attendants that shall •ait upon him in that day. For then the whole Court of Heaven will come down with •is King to […] upon him here in this ••wer World, […] that (as one of the Ancients ••pr•sses i•,) the Third Heavens will be left […] in that Day. The glory of Kings […] in their Attendants, in that they have ••at Ones to wait upon them. Kings have […] of the Land, and the greatest in the ⟨p. 110⟩Kingdom to wait on them: So this Glorious King when he comes again into the World, when he removes his Throne from Heaven to the Earth, all the Natives and Nobles of Heaven shall come with him; not only all the Saints in Glory, but also all the Angels that are now round about the Throne in that World which is to us Invisible. So tis here affirmed in the Verse in which my Text is, That the Son of Man shall come in his Glory and all the holy Angels with him. Angels holy Angels not some but all of them, shall then come & wait upon this King of Glory, Zach. 14 5. The Lord my God shall come and all the Saints with thee. When he shall sit on his Throne of Glory, he has Service for the Holy Angels to be employed in. They shall sound the Trumpet and Summon the World to appear before this Glorious King. They shall gather the Elect of God from every corner of the World, Matth. 24 31. He shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather his Elect from the four winds, from one end of Heaven to the other. In the great day of Judgment there shall be an Eternal Separation made between good men, and evil men▪ all the Righteous shall stand at the Right-hand […] the Judge in that Day, and all Wicked men shall stand at his Left hand. Now the Angels of God shall be the Instruments of […] this Separation, Mat▪ 13 49. At the ⟨p. 111⟩