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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 2. That the Glory is in some measure, & in an awful degree removed from us already. The Glory of the Lord seems to be on the wing. Oh! Tremble for it is going, it is gradually departing. Although there is that of the Divine Glory still remaining among us, which we ought to be very Thankful for; Nevertheless, much of it is gone, which thought should humble and abase us in the dust before the Lord. There comes to mind what the Prophet Haggai said to those that were come out of Babylon. Hag. 2.3. Who is there lest among you, that saw this House in her first Glory? And how do you see it now? Is it not in your Eyes in comparison of it as nothing? You that are Aged persons, and can remember what New-England was Fifty Years ago, that saw these Churches in their first Glory; Is there not a a fad decay▪ and diminution of the Glory? We may weep to think of it: As many of the Lords People did when the Foundation of the ⟨p. 67⟩second Temple was laid. Ezra 3.12. Many of the Priests and Levites and chief of the Fathers, who were Ancient men, that had seen the first House, We•t with a loud voice. So among us; Ancient men, though they bless God for what they Do see of His Glory remaining in these Churches, they cannot but mourn when they remember what they Have seen, far surpassing what is at present. Let us look where we will, and we may observe a lessening of the Glory. Is not our Silver become Dross, and our Wine mixed with Water? Isa. 1.22. May we not sigh with the Lamenting Church, and say, as in Lam. 4.1. How is the Gold become Dim? How is the most fine Gold Changed? Yea, how are the Golden Candlesticks in New-England Changed! Alas! What a change is there in that which has been our Glory? Time was, when these Churches were Beautiful as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as an Army with Banner•. What a glorious Presence of Christ was there in all His Ordinances? Many were Conver•ed, and willingly Declared what God had done for their Souls: and there were