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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 › USE.
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3. God has not seemed to take pleasure in the American world, so as to fix and settle His Glory therein. The Scripture says, The Kingdom of God is like •eaven hid in Three measure of Meal until the whole was Leavened. Luk. 23 22. Which some take to be a Prediction, that ⟨p. 65⟩the Gospel should spread through Asia, Europe and Africae, then the only known parts of the world. What God will do for the future with America, is not for us to determine. Act. 1 7. It is not for you to know the Times, and the Seasons which the Father has put in His own Power. But it is our Duty humbly to observe his Providence. Now the Lord has not hitherto seen meet to shine upon this so as on the other Hemisphere. The greatest part of its Inhabitants are Pagans· Most of those that have any thing of the Christian Name are really Anti-Christian. And the generality of them that pretend unto the Protestant Religion, are a lose sort of men, and a Scandal to any Religion. There▪ was an attempt (about an Hundred and Fifty Years since) to settle the Protestant Religion in the Southern America, and some Eminent Christians and Ministers, from Geneva were engaged in it; but it soon come to nothing. And the late miscarriage of the Caledonia design is an awful Providence, and looks uncomfortably on America. There is more of the Divine Glory in New-England then in all America besides. ⟨p. 66⟩We have the greater Cause not to be high-minded, but to fear. Especially if w•
3. God has not seemed to take pleasure in the American world, so as to fix and settle His Glory therein. The Scripture sayes, The Kingdom of God is like •eaven hid in Three measure of Meal until the whole was Leavened. Luk. 23 22. Which some take to be a Prediction, that ⟨p. 65⟩