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Faithful warnings to prevent fearful judgments. Uttered in a brief discourse, occasioned, by a…
Faithful warnings to prevent fearful judgments. Uttered in a brief discourse, occasioned, by a tragical spectacle, in a number of miserables under a sentence of death for piracy. At Boston in N.E. Jun. 22. 1704. : [Five lines of quotations]
Boston, : Printed & sold by Timothy Green, at the north end of the town., 1704
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It is a memorable passage, Psal. 125. 3. The Rod of the Wicked, shall not rest upon the Lot of the Righteous. There is in that passage, an Allusion, to the method used for the Dividing of Lands among the Jews of old. A Rod, or a Staff, was used in the Dividing of Lands by Lot, and […] assigning to any one, what portion & ⟨p. 5⟩Lands was to fall unto him. The meaning is not, That the Wicked shall not Scourge the Righteous; as from the mee• sound of the word, we sometimes do carry it; But the meaning is, That the Portion of the Wicked shall not be the Portion of the Righteous; they shall not in their Condition be Confounded with one another.
It is a memorable passage, Psal. 125. 3. The Rod of the Wicked, shall not rest upon the Lot of the Righteous. There is in that passage, an Allusion, to the method used for the Dividing of Lands among the Jews of old. A Rod, or a Staff, was used in the Dividing of Lands by Lot, and 〈…〉 assigning to any one, what portion & ⟨p. 5⟩Lands was to fall unto him. The meaning is not, That the Wicked shall not Sc•urge the Righteous; as from the mee• sound of the word, we sometimes do carry it; But the meaning is, That the Portion of the Wicked shall not be the Portion of the Righteous; they shall not in their Condition be Confounded with one another.
Behold, the Different Lot of the Wicked and of the Righteous! In the Verse we have a Distinction of men; Even the very same that now distinguishes this Congregation. Will every man seriously Enquire, To which of these do I belong? The Wicked and the Righteous, are the several parties. Of the Wicked, we have before us, two most awful Admonitions. First, We are told what they […]. They are Sinners. Their Name implies, that they go out of the way. For what? But that they may pursue that which is Evil. And then, We are told, what they find. I may rather say, what finds them. Evil does pursue them. And will it not come at them too? Most certainly! Most certainly!