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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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3. Our Obedience to the Will of God should be Universal: We must Comply with his whole Will. We may not pick and choose among the Commandments of God. That was Jehu's Obedience, which discovered the Insincerity of his Heart. He walked not in the Law of the Lord with all his Heart; for he departed not from the Sin of Jeroboam, 2 King. 10.31. God Commanded him to destroy the Worship of Baal; that he Obeyed. God Commanded him to execute Judgment on the House of Ahab; that he Obeyed. He ought to have departed from the Sin of Jeroboam; but that Commandment he would not Obey, because it did not Comport with his Worldly Interest to do it. If we would be the true Disciples of Christ, we must observe All his Commandments: Joh. 15.14. You are my Friends, if you do whatsoever Command you. We must do all the Commandments of God; and forbear doing ⟨p. 22⟩every thing that he has Forbidden: Psal. 119.128. I esteem all thy Precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. If we do so, we may hope for acceptance with God; and we shall not be put to shame by a disappointment of our hope. Then shall I not be Ashamed when I have respect unto all thy Commandments, Ver. 6.
3. Our Obedience to the Will of God should be Universal: We must Comply with his whole Will. We may not pick and chuse among the Commandments of God. That was Jehu's Obedience, which discovered the Insincerity of his Heart. He walked not in the Law of the Lord with all his Heart; for he departed not from the Sin of Jeroboam, 2 King. 10.31. God Commanded him to destroy the Worship of Baal; that he Obeyed. God Commanded him to execute Judgment on the House of Ahab; that he Obeyed. He ought to have departed from the Sin of Jeroboam; but that Commandment he would not Obey, because it did not Comport with his Worldly Interest to do it. If we would be the true Disciples of Christ, we must observe All his Commandments: Joh. 15.14. You are my Friends, if you do whatsoever Command you. We must do all the Commandments of God; and forbear doing