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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
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3. When the Holy Spirit withholds his wonted gracious Influences and Operations, the Glory is removed from that People. The Spirit of God is the Spirit of Glory: 1 Pet. 4.14. If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ, happy are you, for the ⟨p. 26⟩Spirit of Glory and of God resteth upon you. They that have a singular presence of the Spirit of God within them, are upon that account, the Subjects of a Divine glory. This was one of the peculiar glories of the Children of Israel, in respect whereof they did Excel all other people; in that that they had such a Presence of the holy Spirit amongst them as no other people had. Neh· 9.20. Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them. And in another place it is said, According to the word that I Covenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remaineth among you. Hag. 2.5. The gifts of the Spirit are glorious things. God poured down of his Spirit in a glorious manner in those Extraordinary gifts, which some among his people, for the benefit of all were endowed with. But these departed for a long time after the Temple was Destroyed; which might be one thing signified by the going away of the glory. Ezek. 11.23. The Glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the City, and stood upon the Mountain. So did the holy Spirit go up to the Mountain, i. e. to Heaven, ⟨p. 27⟩and there he abode for a long Time. They saw not their Signs, nor was there any more a Prophet among them. Under the Second Temple, there were not until the coming of Christ, those glorious Effusions of the Spirit which had been under the First Temple. The Hebrew Doctors observe that there were Five glorious things in the First Temple, which were wanting in the Second·
3. When the Holy Spirit witholds his wonted gracious Influences and Operations, the Glory is removed from that People. The Spirit of God is the Spirit of Glory: 1 Pet. 4.14. If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ, happy are you, for the