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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
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THE design of the Prophet in the beginning of this Chapter, is to declare the woeful condition the Jews were in before such time as God called them to be His People: They had no cause to be Proud of their Pedigree, yet they were so. They boasted that they had Abraham for their Father, and that they were descended from such great & good Men ⟨p. 2⟩as Isaac & Jacob; but the Prophet […] them to understand that they were […] better than if they were descended […] the Canaanites, whom they had […] meanest esteem of. Nay, the Amorite• the worst among the Canaanites. […] Father was an Amorite, and thy Mother an Hittite. In this with the preceding and following Verses Jerusalem is compared unto a wretched Exposititiou• Infant, cast out not in the Stree• where it might have some pity, but […] the open Field, where none eye pitie• it nor looked after it. Thus by Parabolical & Allegorical Expressions the Prophet sets forth the Miserable state […] the Jewish Nation when in Egypt▪ There is also a Mystical Spiritual Meaning intended in the words; Namely to signify that such as this is the case o• all the Elect of God, till He shall please to Regenerate them. Wherefore the Doctrine is,
THE design of the Prophet in the beginning of this Chapter, is to declare the woful condition the Jews were in before such time as God called them to be His People: They had no cause to be Proud of their Pedigree, yet they were so. They boasted that they had Abraham for their Father, and that they were descended from such great & good Men ⟨p. 2⟩as Isaac & Jacob; but the Prophet 〈…〉 them to understand that they were 〈…〉 better than if they were descended 〈…〉 the Canaanites, whom they had 〈…〉 meanest esteem of. Nay, the Amorite• the worst among the Canaanites. Father was an Amorite, and thy Mother an Httite. In this with the preceding and following Verses Jerusalem is compared unto a wretched Exposititiou Infant, cast out not in the Stree where it might have some pity, but the open Field, where none eye pitie it nor look'd after it. Thus by Parabolical & Allegorical Expressions the Prophet sets forth the Miserable state the Jewish Nation when in AEgypt There is also a Mystil Spiritual Meaning intended in the words; Namely to signifie that such as this is the case o all the Elect of God, till He shall please to Regenerate them. Wherefore the Doctrine is,