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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
ICHABOD, OR, The GLORY Departing FROM New England › Sermon 2 › USE.
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.
Consider, I. It is possible that the Glory may depart from us, and that Totally. Who can say▪ but that New-England will have that Name of Ichabod written upon it! That many who look upon us, will sigh over us, and say, Where is the Glory? We are loth to believe this. But let me a little enlarge upon it, in setting before you some things, which may easily Convince •s, that this is possible.
Consider, I. It is possible that the Glory may depart from us, and that Totally. Who can say▪ but that New-England will have that Name of Ichab•d written upon it! That many who look upon us, will sigh over us, and say, Where is the Glory? We are loth to believe this. But let me a little inlarge upon it, in setting before you some things, which may easily Convince •s, that this is possible.
1. It was been thus in other places, who once had the Glory of the Lord among them as long and longer then we have had it. Was it not so with Shiloh? Jer. 7.12. Go ye now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my Name a• first, and see what I did to it, for the wickedness of my People Israel. And what was it that the Lord did to it? He caused the Ark (and so the Glory) to ⟨p. 57⟩be removed from that place, and never to return thither again; although it had continued there Three Hundred and Forty Nine Years: And the ten Tribes (among which Shiloh was situated) were delivered into the hands of their Assyrian Enemies. It is then possible that in after Ages, it may be said, Go and see what God has done to New-England, because of the Apostasy, and the Iniquity of the People there. Thus also concerning Jerusalem, which was the City of Solemnities; and there was more of the Glory of God in it, then in all the world besides: Nevertheless, that Glory was removed from them for Seventy Years together. And, although the Lord was so Gracious, as in some measure to restore the Glory, they at last Sinned it quite away. Nor has there been any Glory there for these many Generations. What is Jerusalem at this day, but a Miserable Town, in which are no Inhabitants, besides Infidels and Idolaters; not one man in whom the Divine Glory dwells. And on Mount Zion, yea, in that very place where Solomons Temple stood, there is now a Moseh,