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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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4. Candlesticks are removable things, they may be taken from one place and set in an other•, So the Church-state and Privileges of this or that particular People or Society, may possibly be taken from them. Rev. 2 5. Repent and do thy first works, or else I will come unto the quickly, and will remove thy Candlestick out of it's place, except thou Repent. q. e. Repent and reform, else ⟨p. 15⟩I will soon unchurch you, you shall cease from being in a Church-state, and having the Privileges thereof. Those who wickedly pervert and abuse their Church-state & Privileges, are in danger of losing them. What said our Lord to the Jews, Matt. 21.41 The Kingdom of Heaven shall be taken from you, and given to a Nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Abused mercies are often withdrawn▪ those lifted as it were to Heaven in Privileges, may be as Remarkably cast down and punished for abusing them.
4. Candlesticks are removable things, they may be taken from one place and set in an other•, So the Church-state and Priviledges of this or that partiuclar People or Societie, may possibly be taken from them. Rev. 2 5. Repent and do thy first works, or else I will come unto the quickly, and will remove thy Candlestick out of it's place, except thou Repent. q. e. Repent and reform, else ⟨p. 15⟩I will soon unchurch you, you shall cease from being in a Church-state, and having the Priviledges thereof. Those who wickedly pervert and abuse their Church-state & Priviledges, are in danger of loseing them. What said our Lord to the Jews, Matt. 21.41 The Kingdom of Heaven shall be taken from you, and given to a Nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Abused mercies are often withdrawn▪ those lifted as it were to Heaven in Priviledges, may be as Remarkably cast down and punished for abusing them.