N01905:12
A vision in the temple. The Lord of Hosts, adored
A vision in the temple. The Lord of Hosts, adored; and the King of Glory proclaimed; on a day of prayer kept (May 10. 1721) at the opening of the New Brick Meeting House in the north part of Boston, by the ministers of the city, with the Society which built it, & this day swarmed into it. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]
Boston: printed for Robert Starkey. And sold, 1721
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For the PSALM that is now to yield us a Text for our Intention, may we not find some Occasion in the Removal of the A•k, and its Translation up to Zion at which the People appeared in a great Confluence, and with much Solemnity? The People are Exhorted hereupon, to practice the most Substantial, gather with their Ceremonial PIETY. But might not the Ascension of our SAVIOUR into the Heavenly World, be represented in that Solemnity, and be here described and predicted? We are credibly informed, That the Psalm now before us, was that which it was the ancient Custom of the Hebrews to Sing still on, The First Day of the Week. Doubtless, Their Wise ⟨p. 3⟩Men discerned here, a Prophecy of a CHRIST, who on the First Day of the Week, began to Ascend the Throne of his Glory. Yea, Why should not the Coming of our SAVIOUR in His Kingdom, have the Spirit of Prophecy here pointing at it? The Period, when the King of Glory, shall make His Entry, and His Church here is to give him a Reception due to such a King of Glory.
For the PSALM that is now to yield us a Text for our Intention, may we not find some Occasion in the Removal of the A•k, and its Translation up to Zion at which the People appeared in a g•eat Confluence, and with much Solemnity? The People are Exhorted hereupon, to practice the most Substantial, •gether with their Ceremonial PIETY. But might not the Ascension of our SAVIOUR into the Heavenly World, be represented in that Solemnity, and be here described and predicted? We are credibly informed, That the Psalm now before us, was that which it was the ancient Custome of the Hebrews to Sing still on, The First Day of the Week. Doubtless, Their Wise ⟨p. 3⟩Men discerned here, a Prophecy of a CHRIST, who on the First Day of the Week, began to Ascend the Throne of his Glory. Yea, Why should not the Coming of our SAVIOUR in His Kingdom, have the Spirit of Prophecy here pointng at it? The Period, when the King of Glory, shall make His Entry, and His Church here is to give him a Reception due to such a King of Glory.