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A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing.…
A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasioned by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasion'd by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1714
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Quest. II. After what Manner ought the Will of God to be done by us?
Answ. We have the Answer to that in the following words in this Third Petition in the Platform of Prayer, which our Lord Jesus Christ has given us: On Earth as it is in Heaven; as it is done by Saints and Angels in Heaven. There will a Day come, when the Will of God shall be done on Earth, with as great Perfection as it is done in Heaven; Namely, in the Resurrection World: For the present we cannot come up to the Perfection of Angelical Obedience; nevertheless, we should aim at it.
Particularly, 1. We should do the Will of God Speedily & without Delay. The Angels in Heaven do so. They wait to know what the Pleasure of God is, and when it is signified, they do it without delaying so much as one Moment. The Angel Gabriel said, I Stand in the Presence of God, Luk. 1.19. As a Servant having done the Business his Master has Employed him, comes and stands in the Presence of his Master, waiting to know what his Pleasure is for him to do next. Psal. 103.20, 21. Bless the Lord, ye his Angels, that do his Commandments, hearkening to the Voice of his Word; ye Ministers of his that do his Pleasure. That hearkening to his Word, implies ready Obedience. When the Great GOD sends his Angels on any Errand to the Earth, they go presently. Therefore in the Scripture they are represented not only as Going, but as Running, as soon as the Lord sends them. It is said of the Living Creatures in Ezekiel's Vision, by which Angels are meant, that they ran and returned as a flash of ⟨p. 17⟩Lightning,