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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.
3. The Holy Fire.
4. The Shechinah, or Divine Presence.
4. The Shechina, or Divine Presence.
5. The Holy Ghost: under which Prophecy and other Extraordinary gifts of the Spirit are comprehended. And this helps to understand that Scripture, Act. 19., 2. When the Disciples at Ephesus,, being asked whether they had received the holy Ghost, replied, We have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost. It is not to be supposed, that they had never heard any thing of the person or being of the holy Spirit, only they had heard nothing of his coming down from heaven, in respect of those Extraordinary gifts which for a ⟨p. 28⟩long time had ceased. But the saving graces of the Spirit are more glorious things then those Extraordinary gifts were. 1 Cor. 12.31. Covet earnestly the best Gifts: and yet show I unto you a more Excellent way. Saving grace is more Excellent then the Best Gifts without that grace. It is a Spiritual and Internal glory. It makes a glorious Soul. Psal. 45.12. The Kings Daughter is all glorious within. There is a gracious and a glorious presence of the Spirit of God among his People when Sinners are Converted into Saints, and when Saints are built up in their most holy Faith. Wherefore, the Spirit of God is withdrawn, & the glory is upon the remove.