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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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Wherefore, From the Lord of Hosts, and in His Name, there are Some orders to be more briefly Served upon you.
In the First Place, You cannot be Insensible, that the First thing you have to Look to, i•, That you approve your selves, even your very Hearts as Upright before the Lord of Hosts, in what you do, when you Say, That you are Building for Him. Verily, The Lord of Hosts ▪ He is • God of Knowledge, and by Him Actions are Weighed; He walks in the midst of His Churches▪ His Eyes penetrate Like the Lightning; and He ⟨p. 38⟩will make all the Churches to know, that He Searches the Hearts. Beware, Oh! Beware, of being acted by Corrupt Principles, when you seem to have the Zeal of the House of God acting of you. You have Lived, where you have heard those Maxims, Pride goeth before Destruction; And, The wrath of Man works not the Righteousness of God. Guard well against such and all Corrupt Principles; For, if these are the Secret Springs of your Motions, Doth not He that ponders the Heart, Consider it? And He that preserves thy Soul, does He not know it? And will not He render to every Man according to his works?
In the First Place, You cannot be Insensible, that the First thing you have to Look to, i•, That you approve your selves, even your very Hearts as Ʋpright before the Lord of Hosts, in what you do, when you Say, That you are Building for Him. Verily, The Lord of Hosts ▪ He is • God of Knowledge, and by Him Actions are Weigh'd; He walks in the midst of His Churches▪ His Eyes penetrate Like the Lightning; and He ⟨p. 38⟩