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Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when…
Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when the author attained to the eightieth year of his age. II. A dying testimony to the sovereign grace of God in the salvation of his elect, containing three sermons. III. Believers encouraged to pray from the consideration of Christs interceding for them, and with them. / By Increase Mather, D.D ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1719
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.
Luther advised the Emperor of Germany, that he should make War rather against the Pope than the Turk, as being the greatest Enemy in the World to the Kingdom of Christ. We ought to Praise God who has given our Nation a Protestant King, whose Ancestors have ever been Protestants. His Royal GrandMother famous for her Piety, dyed in Exile for her Religion. His Grand-Father was deprived of the Kingdom of Bohemia for His being a Protestant. Behold how God has rewarded Him, in bestowing Three Kingdoms on His GrandSon, our King GEORGE. And this National Mercy is the greater, in that divers of our late Kings were not so. One called Himself a Protestant, that was a Papist: Another renounced the Protestant Religion, and designed to restore Rome again in England. What came of it? Truly the curse of Joshua fell upon him. Joshua cursed the Man that should go to rebuild the Walls of Jericho, cursed that ⟨p. 125⟩Man and His Children. So that King […] went to build the Romish Jericho, the […] of JESUS has fallen on him and to his Family, Josh. 6. 26. Since God has given us a Protestant King, we ought to Pray much for Him. It is said of One of the Kings of Persia, when he gave encouragement to build the Temple, they were to Pray for the Life of the King, and of his Sons, Ezra 6. 10. Thus our King has given encouragement to build the Temple, we should Pray for Him for His Life, and Pray for His Family. And when we Pray for our Nation, shall we not Pray for our selves, for poor distressed New England. It is well that we have begun the Year with solemn Prayer. If the Harvest should fail, what a Miserable condition shall we be in? If we have Showers from Heaven, it is God that gives them. God says, Zech. 10. 1. Ask of the Lord rain, and he will give you Showers of Rain. What shall be done that we may be delivered out of the grievous distresses upon us? Alas! for the Sins of New-England. Alas! for the Sins of Boston; What unreasonable Oppression is in the midst of us? The Merchant ⟨p. 126⟩Oppressing the People in the Country, the People in the Country Oppressing the People in Boston: but who does the Oppression chiefly fall upon? Not so much upon the Rich, as upon the poor; the poor are like to be crushed to death Alas! that there are the Sins of Sodom among us! Many in Boston are guilty of the Sins of Sodom. Is there not Pride?