N01147:155
A dissertation, wherein the strange doctrine lately published in a sermon, the tendency of…
A dissertation, wherein the strange doctrine lately published in a sermon, the tendency of which, is, to encourage unsanctified persons (while such) to approach the holy table of the Lord, is examined and confuted. With an appendix, showing what Scripture ground there is to hope, that within a very few years there will be a glorious reformation of the church throughout the world. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]A dissertation, wherein the strange doctrine lately published in a sermon, the tendency of which, is, to encourage unsanctified persons (while such) to approach the holy table of the Lord, is examined and confuted. With an appendix, shewing what Scripture ground there is to hope, that within a very few years there will be a glorious reformation of the church throughout the world. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benj. Eliot, 1708
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still God keeps a number in the World, that do fear Him, and serve Him, and a Wonderful Thing it is. Gods Wonderful Dealings with David, in carrying him safe, through so many Enemies and dangers was an Example, a Type of His Providence towards His Church in all Ages of the World. I have formerly showed you how the Church of God is like the Bush that Moses beheld, that was Burned and yet not Consumed. It is said Act 7. 31. That Moses did Wonder […]! he wondered to see a dry shrub, all on a flame and yet not Consumed. The Church of God is that Bush that hath been all on a flame, for these Five Thousand Years, and not Consumed! No, nor shall it be while the World stands. This is a Wonderful Work of God! And the Work of God in delivering His Church, is also very Wonderful. He uses to believer His people in such a way as they never dreamed of in such a way as men never thought of, Isa 64. 3, 4. […] ⟨p. 120⟩against their Enemies, which the Children of Israel never thought of: They did not look for such Things; they little thought that God would deliver them. First by bringing Ten Plagues on the Land of Egypt; and, when that would not do, by destroying the King of Egypt, and all his Nobles in one day, that so His People might be saved. These were terrible Things, that were not looked for, till God did them. So doth the Lord deliver His people by such Instruments (many times) as were very unlikely to be Saviours, His Works are Wondrous in that respect. When the Children of Israel were oppressed by the Midianites, God wrought Salvation for them by Gideon, an obscure Man, of a poor Family in Manasseh, and he the least of his Fathers Family, this Gideon, with Three Hundred Men must deliver the Lords People from more then an Hundred Thousand Enemies that came in Arms against them, this was a Wondrous Work. So that David must be a Deliverer was Wonderful, David (the Son of Jesse) a poor Shepherd must deliver the Lords people from the Syrians, and Ammonites, and other Nations. And I am persuaded, that there is, at this Day, some David keeping the Sheep, whom God will raise up to do Great Things for His Name: Remember, that I told you so, for some of you may live to see it. And the Work of God in Reforming and Refining His Church, is not less Wonderful, than that of Delivering them.
still God keeps a number in the World, that do fear Him, and serve Him, and a Wonderful Thing it is. Gods Wonderful Dealings with David, in carrying him safe, through so many Enemies and dangers was an Example, a Type of His Providence towards His Church in all Ages of the World. I have formerly shewed you how the Church of God is like the Bush that Moses beheld, that was Burned and yet not Consumed. It is said Act 7. 31. That Moses did Wonder ! he wondred to see a dry shrub, all on a flame and yet not Consumed. The Church of God is that Bush that hath been all on a flame, for these Five Thousand Years, and not Consumed! No, nor shall it be while the World stands. This is a Wonderful Work of God! And the Work of God in delivering His Church, is also very Wonderful. He uses to beliver His people in such a way as they never dreamed of in such a way as men never thought of, Isa 64. 3, 4.