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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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ICHABOD, OR, The GLORY Departing FROM New England › Sermon 1
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.
Answ. 1. When God Himself goes from them, then the Glory is gone. The design of this Vision was to intimate this. The Jews thought that God would never go out of the Temple, but that as long as they had the Temple they were sure enough of the Lords being amongst them. To convince them of the contrary, Ezekiel saw the Glory of the Lord going out of the Temple. GOD is infinite Glory. ⟨p. 17⟩The Hebrews were wont to call God by that Name of Glory. 2 Pet. 1.17. There came a voice from the Excellent Glory: That is from God, who is Excellent Glory. And He is styled the God of Glory, Act. 7.2. The God of Glory appeared to our Father Abraham▪ And the Glorious Lord, Isa. 39.21. The greatest Glory which any people have or can have, is in their relation to Him, Jer. 2.11. My People have changed their Glory. Changing their God was changing their Glory. No People in the world have such a Glory upon them, as they have who have the only true God to be their God. Zec. •.5. For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of Fire round about, and will be the Glory in the midst of her. God is His Peoples Muniment, and their Ornament. He is their Glory Actively, because they ascribe Glory to Him: and Passively in that they receive all their Glory from Him. Therefore when God goes away, the Glory goes. But He is not said to go from any People, or from any Place in respect of His Essential Presence, which […] impossible; only when He ceaseth to manifest His Gracious Presence in the ⟨p. 18⟩midst of them. Judg. 6.13. If the Lord be with us, why is all this befallen us? When the Lord permits the Enemies of His People to prevail, and does not Exert His Power for their Salvation, He is said not to be with them. The Attributes of God (which are His Being variously discovered unto and apprehended by His Creatures) are called His Glory. Joh. 11