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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.
3. The Providence of God is threatening to pull down the Wall which ha• been a Defence to these Churches. When the Glory was removing from Jerusalem, the prophet took up that complaint in […] 2.•. The Lord has purposed to Destroy the ⟨p. 80⟩Wall of t•e Daughter of Zion. Things look at this day, as if the Lord had purposed to Destroy our Wall. That Civil Charter Government which God has favoured with, has been a Wall to the Churches. That Wall is at this day in great danger of being destroyed· And yet (which is an astonishing thing) we have done little or nothing to prevent it; as if we were under a Judicial dispensation of Heaven. Now if the Wall is removed, will not the Glory remove with it? What can we then expect, but that many Evils will soon break in upon us like a Flood!
3. The Providence of God is threatning to pull down the Wall which ha• been a Defence to these Churches. When the Glory was removing from Ierusalem, the ••ophet took up that complaint in 〈…〉 2.•. The Lord has purposed to Destroy the ⟨p. 80⟩Wall of t•e Daughter of Sion. Things look at this day, as if the Lord had purposed to Destroy our Wall. That Civil Charter Government which God has favoured with, has been a Wall to the Churches. That Wall is at this day in great danger of being destroyed· And yet (which is an astonishing thing) we have done little or nothing to prevent it; as if we were under a Judicial dispensation of Heaven. Now if the Wall is removed, will not the Glory remove with it? What can we then expect, but that many Evils will soon break in upon us like a Flood!