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Zealots. A zeal for the house of God, blown up, in a sermon unto…Zelotes. A zeal for the house of God, blown up, in a sermon unto…
Zealots. A zeal for the house of God, blown up, in a sermon unto an assembly of Christians; in the south-part of Boston. On 8. d. XI. m. 1716,17. : A day of prayer kept by them, at their first entrance into a new edifice erected by them, for the public worship of God our Saviour. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from St. Ambrose]Zelotes. A zeal for the house of God, blown up, in a sermon unto an assembly of Christians; in the south-part of Boston. On 8. d. XI. m. 1716,17. : A day of prayer kept by them, at their first entrance into a new edifice erected by them, for the publick worship of God our Saviour. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from St. Ambrose]
Boston: printed by J. Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1717
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
[…] the ⟨p. 33⟩House of GOD. Yea, Do with all your might for it, as the Zeal of David once did what he did before the Ark; When the Angel of God possessing him threw him into the usual Prophetic Agitations. He said, Psal. CXXII. 9. Because of the House of the Lord our GOD, I will seek thy Good. Oh! Seek the Good of the House of the Lord our GOD. Often think, What shall I do for the House of God? Mercy and Truth will be to them who devise Good, for the House of GOD.
〈…〉 the ⟨p. 33⟩House of GOD. Yea, Do with all your might for it, as the Zeal of David once did what he did before the Ark; When the Angel of God possessing him threw him into the usual Prophetick Agitations. He said, Psal. CXXII. 9. Because of the House of the Lord our GOD, I will seek thy Good. Oh! Seek the Good of the House of the Lord our GOD. Often think, What shall I do for the House of God? Mercy and Truth will be to them who devise Good, for the House of GOD.
¶ And now, my Brethren, unto you, who professing a Zeal for the House of GOD, have here built an HOUSE, wherein you propose to have His Worship carried on; What can we wish? For we would wish you all the Good of His House, and that is indeed all the Good that can be wished for!—But what can we wish, that shall be a better Symptom, or a better Success of your Zeal, than, That the House you have built may ⟨p. 34⟩have that Felicity Illuminating of it; Isa. LX. 7. I will Glorify the House of my Glory.