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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 2
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. God useth to favour His People with a day of Grace. He giveth time for Repentance. Rev. 2.21. I gave her space to Repent. And He useth means with them to bring them to Repentance, that so a Total removal of the Glory may be prevented. Yea, the Lord often visits His People with great variety of means. What could be done more? He prove• them with Mercies. He tries whether ⟨p. 52⟩Goodness will lead them to Repentance▪ So did the Lord deal with the Children of Israel. According to His manifold Mercies, He gave them saviours who saved them •ut of the hand of their Enemies: And many Times did He deliver them according to His Mercies. Neh. 9.27, 28. And He •ries what Afflictions will do When Public Calamities come, the voice of those Judgments, is, This People have Sinned, Let them Repent. And the Lord Graciously waits to see what effect those Judgments will have, whether men will thereby be brought to Repentance or no. Isa. 30.18. Therefore will the Lord wait that He may be Gracious to you. In the mean time, He continues calling on them by His Word, and striving with them by His Holy Spirit, and this perhaps for many Years together, before there is a Total removal of the Glory. Neh. 9.30. Many Years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit in thy Prophets. Nor does all the Glory always depart as soon as the Day of Grace is expired.
3. God useth to favour His People with a day of Grace. He giveth time for Repentance. Rev. 2.21. I gave her space to Repent. And He useth means with them to bring them to Repentance, that so a Total removal of the Glory may be prevented. Yea, the Lord often visits His People with great variety of means. What could be done more? He prove them with Mercies. He tries whether