N00935:17
Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened.…
Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened. In a brief discourse, delivered, April 25. 1703. : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1703
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and being the First, God will have them to shine brighter in His History, than any of the rest. Yea, more than so; By those that are First Converted in any Family, or People or Nation, God, as it were, takes Hold of the Kindred, & gives Assurance, for the Conversion of more in His Time. The Jews who First Received the Lord Jesus Christ, Encourage us to expect a […] Harvest of Jews, when the whole Jewish People and Nation shall Turn unto ⟨p. 10⟩the Lord. It is thus argued, Rom. 11. 16. If the First-fruit be Holy, the Lump is also Holy. And perhaps, there is no People or Nation, that has had any Quantity of Christians in it, but notwithstanding any horrible Apostasy and Calamity, & Confusion intervening, yet God will have a Reserve of more Christians, to be Gathered unto Him, from that People and Nation, in the Latter Days, when People shall gather together, and Kingdoms to serve the Lord.
and being the First, God will have them to shine brighter in His History, than any of the rest. Yea, more than so; By those that are First Converted in any Family, or People or Nation, God, as it were, takes Hold of the Kindred, & gives Assurance, for the Conversion of more in His Time. The Jews who First Received the Lord Jesus Christ, Encourage us to expect a 〈…〉 Harvest of Jews, when the whole Jewish People and Nation shall Turn unto ⟨p. 10⟩the Lord. It is thus argued, Rom. 11. 16. If the First-fruit be Holy, the Lump is also Holy. And perhaps, there is no People or Nation, that has had any Quantity of Christians in it, but notwithstanding any horrible Apostasy and Calamity, & Confusion intervening, yet God will have a Reserve of more Christians, to be Gathered unto Him, from that People and Nation, in the Latter Dayes, when People shall gather together, and Kingdoms to serve the Lord.