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Gods frown in the death of useful men. Showed in a sermon preached at…Gods frown in the death of useful men. Shewed in a sermon preached at…
Gods frown in the death of useful men. Showed in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Col John Pynchon Esq. Who deceased January 17th. 1702[/]3. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton.Gods frown in the death of useful men. Shewed in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Col John Pynchon Esq. Who deceased January 17th. 1702[/]3. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton.
printed by B Green, 1703
Title page typeset from the transcription.
GODS Frown IN THE DEATH of Useful Men.GODS Frown IN THE DEATH of Vsefull Men.
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.
GODS Frown IN THE DEATH of Useful Men.
GODS Frown IN THE DEATH of Vsefull Men.
Isaiah III. part of v. 1st. with the 2d. & 3d. Verses. The Lord, the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah, The Mighty man, and the man of War, the Judge, and the Prophet, and the Prudent, and the Ancient, the Captain of Fifty, and the Honourable man, and the Counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the Eloquent Orator.
Isaiah III. part of v. 1st. with the 2d. & 3d. Verses. The Lord, the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah, The Mighty man, and the man of War, the Judge, and the Prophet, and the Prudent, and the Ancient, the Captain of Fifty, and the Honourable man, and the Counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the Eloquent Oratour.
THE Sins of the Professing People of God do provoke Him to Anger; Men are wont to make many Pretences ⟨p. 2⟩& Excuses, and by them they mitigate the terror of […]: but this does not prevent the displeasure of God: and if God be angry with his People, it will before it be long break out upon them: if there be Prosperity at present, yet in a little time Changes shall pass over them. Thus it was with the People of Judah, they were at present in great Prosperity: Isa 2.7. Their Land is full of Silver and Gold, neither is there any end of their treasures, their Land is also full of Horses, neither is there any end of their Chariots. But they carried themselves very badly: We have an Account in general, Chap. 3. v. 8, 9 Their tongue and their doings are against the Lord to provoke the Eyes of his Glory, the show of their Countenance doth witness against them, and they declare their Sin as Sodom, and hide it not. In particular they were guilty of Idolatry, Chap 2 v. 8. Their Land is full of. Idols, they worship the work of their own bands: and of horrible Pride, Chap. 3. v. 16. The Daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a ticking with their feet. And accordingly God is threatening of them with dreadful Judgments, v 1. with Famine and Drought, v. 2.3. with the Removal of Useful men: