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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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I have done, when I have said; When those Words were spoken by the Prophet of GOD, it seems, he had his Father then Living and present in the Assembly with Him. 'Tis •y Felicity, that you see Mine this Day in this Assembly. And now inasmuch as your Society does very much consist of such as have Lived, Oh! that we could say, Lived unto God! under our Ministry, and we are now so parting with you, that we shall never have another Opportunity of speaking to you as we have done, in the Name of our GOD; I will take this Opportunity on his behalf as well as my own, to take a Final and a proper Farewell of you. When our dear SAVIOUR was within a Few Minutes of His Death, we read, Many of them, who attended on His Ministry, Went away and walked no more with Him. A very Great Withdraw from our Ministry many may think it will be a Trouble to us; and if we were not used unto higher Sentiments, than the People who ⟨p. 43⟩offer i• […] be so. But we have Learned CHRIST better than tha• ▪ I do assure you. My Friend•, I hope you will find it more of a Triumph than of a Trouble to us 'Tis a Circumstance, that carries a Strong and a Strange Consola•on in it; That our […] to the Royal Priesthood is just […] in this Addition to the many Sacrifices, which our Lives have been filled withal▪ That we have now done with a World, that has nothing in it worth Sta•ng for; That we are just Entering into the Joy of our Lord, and are within a Few Weeks of seeing the Best Hour that ever we saw; & a Glorious CHRIST will become All in All unto us But we Lay hold on this Opportunity, To Call Heaven and Earth unto Record, that we have Endeavoured Faithfully to Discharge our Duty unto you in the Days when we have Gone with you unto the House of GOD. Heaven and Earth are Witnesses, How Studious we have been to Watch for your Souls, and to declare unto you the Whole Counsel of GOD: How Careful we have been to describe unto you the ⟨p. 44⟩Things that accompany Salvation, and so invite you into them, that the Hearty Speaking of One Word would have Saved you; How Earnest we have been, and in what an Agony, when we have besought you to be Reconciled unto GOD.