N01899:191
India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel…
India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel among the American Indians : which is accompanied with several instruments relating to the glorious design of propagating our holy religion, in the Eastern as well as the Western, Indies. : An entertainment which they that are waiting for the kingdom of God will receive as good news from a far country. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S.
printed by B. Green, 1721
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It is very sure, That the Prophecy in Joel, I will pour cut my SPIF IT upon all Flesh, yet remains to be accomplished. And it is not unlikely, That the Effusion of the SPIRIT, by which the Primitive Church flourished, might be but as Drops, which will be followed with Mighty Showers, for the Accomplishment of this Prophecy still to be Expected in the Latter Days.
It is very sure, That the Prophecy in Joel, I will pour cut my SPIF IT upon all Flesh, yet remains to be accomplished. And it is not unlikely, That the Effasion of the SPIRIT, by which the Primitive Church flourshed, might be but as Drops, which will be follow'd with Mighty Showers, for the Accomplishment of this Prophecy still to be Expected in the Latter Days.
The Lord will Consume the most wicked Antichrist, by the Breath of His Mouth, and will Destroy him with the Brightness of His Coming. What if by the Breath of His Mouth, we should understand such Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT, as He signified unto His Disciples, when with His Mouth He breathed on them, and said, Receive an Holy Spirit?
I Confess. That the Extraordinary Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT are to be less esteemed of, than that Quickening Grave, by which all that have their Names written in the Book of Life, are Ordinarily Sanctified, and Live unto their GOD. I most willingly Confess, That a Soul Sanctified with the Love of GOD and of CHRIST, and of our Neighbour, is altogether to be preferred before all the Extraordinary Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT. I most readily Confess, That the Extraordinary Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT best […] upon Men are ⟨p. 73⟩Regules esse Examinanda, et si Operationes, quae videntur Miraculosae, ad quidquam contra Pietatem ducant, has esse inter Principis Tenebrarum, see in lucis Angelum transformantis Technas, prorsus rejiciendas. Concedo etiam et semper censeo, Monito Franckiano nil quicquam salubrius unquam fuisse Inculcatum; Minus two Extraordinaria Dona affectari, quippe quae ingens periculum illis, qui firmas altasque in Humilitate Radices non Egerint, (Quis autem Istud de se spondeat?) creare, per accidens quidem possint.