N01147:159
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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1. By prodigious Signs. Thus when the Lord was about to save His Israel of old, Psal. 135. 9. He showed Tokens and Wonders in the Land of Egypt. Prodigies are called Wonders, in that they cause Men to Wonder, & there were many of these when God came down to deliver His People. It is an old Observation, That when the Lord is about to bring Changes on the World Prodigious ⟨p. 122⟩Signs precede, as Indications of the Strange things that must happen. And that Observation is according to Scripture, for so Christ Intimated unto His Disciples, that before the Wonderful Changes coming on the Jewish Nation, there should be Prodigious Signs, that they might from thence Conjecture what God was about to do. Luk. 21. 11. There shall be fearful Sights, and great Signs from Heaven. The Jewish Historian doth give us an Account concerning those fearful sights; He says, that ever Jerusalem there was a Blazing Star, in the Form of a Sword, impending over the City, an whole Year together. And that, in the Air, there were seen Armies Encountering one another. And in the Temple there was a Voice heard, saying, Let us depart from this Place. The Great God, doth Commission His Angels to do such Things, as these are, that so men may prepare for what is coming, or, if found unprepared, be left the more Inexcusable.
1. By prodigious Signs. Thus when the Lord was about to save His Israel of old, Psal. 135. 9. He shewed Tokens and Wonders in the Land of Egypt. Prodigies are called Wonders, in that they cause Men to Wonder, & there were many of these when God came down to deliver His People. It is an old Observation, That when the Lord is about to bring Changes on the World Predigious ⟨p. 122⟩