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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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3. His taking pleasure in them; if behave themselves well. Persons often walk for pleasure and delight, in those places which are agreeable and desirable ⟨p. 22⟩to them. The Lord takes pleasure in his people, and in their graces; as was showed under the head of their preciousness, being more precious than Gold. Cant. 4 16. Awake, O north wind, and come thou south, blow upon my Garden; that the spices thereof may fl•w out: Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. Never did any take so much pleasure in his Garden, and in eating the best fruits of it; as the Lord does in his sincere Saints, and their sincere duties.
3. His taking pleasure in them; if behave themselves well. Persons often walk for pleasure and delight, in those places which are agreeable and desirable ⟨p. 22⟩to them. The Lord takes pleasure in his people, and in their graces; as was shew'd under the head of their preciousness, being more precious than Gold. Cant. 4 16. Awake, O north wind, and come thou south, blow upon my Garden; that the spices thereof may fl•w out: Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. Never did any take so much pleasure in his Garden, and in eating the best fruits of it; as the Lord does in his sincere Saints, and their sincere duties.
4. His smiling or frowning on them, according as they do well or ill. He does not walk among his Churches merely as an idle Spectator, that only observes them, but does not concern himself any further about them. No, indeed, but he's ready to help and relieve, or chastise and punish them according to what their behaviour is.