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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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Reas. 2. The Will of God is Good, and for that Reason should be Complied with. The Wills of men are sometimes Good, and sometimes Evil: Sometimes they Command that to be done which is Good, & sometimes that which is Evil. We may not then live to the Lusts of men, but to the Will of God; for His Will is always Good, and it cannot but be Good because it is his Will, which is the Rule of Goodness: Rom. 7.12. The Commandment is Holy, Just, & Good. And not only the Will of his Precept, but the Will of his Providence is Good, although' never so adverse to our Wills. When the Prophet Predicted to Hezekiah, that sad things would come on his Posterity after his Death, he said, Good is the Word of the Lord which thou hast spoken: he said moreover, For there shall be Peace & Truth in my Days. If the Calamities Threatened should come in my Days, the Word and Will of God would be Good; but there is a further manifestation of the Divine ⟨p. 27⟩Goodness, in that there shall be Peace until I am gone, Isa. 39.8.
Reas. 2. The Will of God is Good, and for that Reason should be Complied with. The Wills of men are sometimes Good, and sometimes Evil: Sometimes they Command that to be done which is Good, & sometimes that which is Evil. We may not then live to the Lusts of men, but to the Will of God; for His Will is always Good, and it cannot but be Good because it is his Will, which is the Rule of Goodness: Rom. 7.12. The Commandment is Holy, Just, & Good. And not only the Will of his Precept, but the Will of his Providence is Good, altho' never so adverse to our Wills. When the Prophet Predicted to Hezekiah, that sad things would come on his Posterity after his Death, he said, Good is the Word of the Lord which thou hast spoken: he said moreover, For there shall be Peace & Truth in my Days. If the Calamities Threatned shou'd come in my Days, the Word and Will of God would be Good; but there is a further manifestation of the Divine ⟨p. 27⟩Goodness, in that there shall be Peace until I am gone,