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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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Let us now make some Improvement of these Things.
But we will Improve them, •st with Some DEMANDS upon the Conscience of every Hearer in this Host of GOD.
Demand. I. An Interest in the great SAVIOUR, and His Favour, how greatly should it be Esteemed of? Surely, O Needy-Man, To have this Lord of Hosts for thy Friend: This is the best Thing that can be wished for. Was not that a aery Reasonable Triumph? Ps. XLVI.2, 7. We will not fear tho' the Earth be Removed, & the Mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea. The Lord of Hosts is with us! My Friends, If the Lord of Hosts be your Friend, have you not the Friendship of One, who can employ all the Creatures in the World, for your Welfare at His pleasure? Have you not the Friendship of One, who can give His Angels Charge concerning you, and ⟨p. 24⟩send you such Helpers as can remove Mountains? Have you not the Friendship of one who, if you had no created Comforters, which of themselves are but miserable ones, is Able of Himself, by His own Immediate Hand, sufficiently to relieve you? Can you ask for more than The Lord of Hosts can do for you! Yea, cannot such a Friend as He, do for you, far above all that you can Ask or Think? They that are assured of having the Great GOD our SAVIOUR, [for indeed, no less an one is or can be our SAVIOUR!] for their Friend, may not they well make their Boast in Him, and say, My Spirit has Rejoiced in GOD my SAVIOUR! Were not they in the Right of it, who said, O God of Hosts, Cause thy Face to Shine, and we shall be Saved. But then, Will you not all now, with all possible Importunity, seek an Interest in the Friendship of such a SAVIOUR? Was there ever made, a Wiser, and Better Proposal than that?