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A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the…
A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, June 16. and in Connecticut-Colony [sic], June 22. 1705. : Also, two sermons, showing, that sin is the greatest evil; and, that to redeem time is the greatest wisdom. / By Increase Mather.A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, June 16. and in Conecticot-Colony [sic], June 22. 1705. : Also, two sermons, shewing, that sin is the greatest evil; and, that to redeem time is the greatest wisdom. / By Increase Mather.
Boston: printed by Timothy Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1706
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THIS Chapter contains the most Heavenly Prayer that ever was made upon Earth. And it was the last Prayer which Christ made with His Apostles. From the Fifth to the Twentieth Verse, we hear Him interceding for those Eleven whom God had given to him. There are diverse Arguments with which our Saviour urgeth his Requests on their behalf. In special, in that He was now leaving them in an Evil World, and in that the World did hate them for His sake, and because they were not of the ⟨p. 38⟩World; but did Preach & Practise things very contrary to the course of the world, and were therefore the greater Objects of the Compassion and Favour of God: In this Verse there are two particulars Expressed.
THIS Chapter contains the most Heavenly Prayer that ever was made upon Earth. And it was the last Prayer which Christ made with His Apostles. From the Fifth to the Twentieth Verse, we hear Him interce•ding for those Eleven whom God had given to him. There are diverse Arguments with which our Saviour urgeth his Requests on their behalf. In special, in that He was now leaving them in an Evil World, and in that the World did hate them for His sake, and because they were not of the ⟨p. 38⟩World; but did Preach & Practise things very contrary to the course of the world, and were therefore the greater Objects of the Compassion and Favour of God: In this Verse there are two particulars Expressed.
1. Christ declares what He did not Pray for with respect to his Disciples. He did not Pray that God would take them out of the world; that is to say, not that he would do it as yet. Although' Christ loved them and desired their Company in Heaven, nevertheless, He would not have them removed thither before their work on Earth was finished. As long as God might have more Glory by their living, than by their dying, He would not Pray them out of the world.