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Two discourses showing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of…Two discourses shewing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of…
Two discourses showing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of the righteous. II. The dignity & duty of aged servants of the Lord. : Also, a preface in which the Congregational discipline of the churches in New-England is vindicated, with the authors dying testimony there-unto. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]Two discourses shewing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of the righteous. II. The dignity & duty of aged servants of the Lord. : Also, a preface in which the Congregational discipline of the churches in New-England is vindicated, with the authors dying testimony there-unto. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1716
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Ears of the LORD are open to the Prayers of the Righteous.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
They have burnt the Synagogues of God, and have ⟨p. 45⟩risen up in Rebellion against the King whom GOD has set over them, and who is without flattery and without reflection on any Prince the best King living on the face of the Earth. We may by Prayer to the Almighty be instrumental in subduing those Rebels and Enemies, to their King and Country. So let thine Enemies perish, O Lord!
And shall we not be Instant in Prayer for New-England? And for those that are to succeed us, that they may Know and Serve the GOD of their Fathers. There is matter of Encouragement before us from the Consideration of Gods gracious Covenant, which says, That His Spirit shall not depart from His Servants, nor from their Seed, nor their Seeds Seed, Isai. 59.21. And there is matter of Encouragement if we Consider whom they are descended from. It has been the observation of some Divines ⟨p. 46⟩that when in the last of those eight Beatitudes (as they are called) Persecuted ones are pronounced blessed twice over, it imports their being blessed not only in themselves, but again in their Posterity, Mat. 5.12, 13. Many of the Children in New-England are the Posterity of those who have been Eminent Confessors and Sufferers in the Cause of Religion, and for the Purity of it. For that it was that they followed the Lord into this Land, when it was a Wilderness, and a Land not sown: will not God remember that kindness to their Children after them? Also, the Experience which we have had of the Lords hearing Prayer, should Encourage us to be Instant therein. When Forty Years ago the whole Country was involved in a dangerous War, with great Multitudes of Indians, we saw many very signal Answers of Prayer, which I thought it my duty in the time of ⟨p. 47⟩them, to take Notice of and publish to the World. And so has it been all along. No longer since than a Year & half ago, we were in eminent danger of a Famine, by reason of a drought of long continuance. We set apart the Second day of the Seventh Month, to be a day of Solemn Prayer, immediately God sent gentle showers, which continued from day to day, so that the fruits of the Earth were wonderfully and beyond expectation revived, and a comfortable Harvest followed. Ought we not to remember such things, and thereby be Encouraged to Pray to that God whose Ears are open to the Prayers of the righteous?