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The danger of speedy degeneracy, held forth in a sermon preached at the lecture…
The danger of speedy degeneracy, held forth in a sermon preached at the lecture in Boston the 5th. of July, 1705. / By Solomon Stoddard Pastor of the church at Northampton.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benj. Eliot, 1705
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Danger Of SPEEDY Degeneracy, › Application 3: USE III. Of WARNING.
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,
1. If you do go on to corrupt your selves, you will frustrate the design of planting the Land. The design of our Fathers in Planting this Country, was that their Posterity might fear and serve the Lord, ⟨p. 24⟩They would not have left England merely for their own quietness: but they were afraid that their Children would be corrupted there. But what advantage will the Planting of this Land be, if we should grow a corrupt People here? as good have been bad in Old England as in New: what great matter is it, if we be delivered from Superstition, if we carry in other respects wickedly: The Planters of the Country might even repent that ever they came over into this Land: the design will be very much lost; they might say as Joshua says, Josh. 7. 7. Would God we had been content and dwelt on the other side Jordan.
1. If you do go on to corrupt your selves, you will frustrate the design of planting the Land. The design of our Fathers in Planting this Country, was that their Posterity might fear and serve the Lord, ⟨p. 24⟩They would not have left England meerly for their own quietness: but they were afraid that their Children would be corrupted there. But what advantage will the Planting of this Land be, if we should grow a corrupt People here? as good have been bad in Old England as in New: what great matter is it, if we be delivered from Superstition, if we carry in other respects wickedly: The Planters of the Country might even repent that ever they came over into this Land: the design will be very much lost; they might say as Joshua says, Josh. 7. 7. Would God we had been content and dwelt on the other side Jordan.