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Question whether God is not angry with the country for doing so little towards…
Question whether God is not angry with the country for doing so little towards the conversion of the Indians? This is spoken to in the following discourse by the Reverend and learned Mr. Solomon Stoddard of North-Hampton.
printed by B. Green, 1723
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QUESTION Whether GOD is not Angry with the Country for doing so little towards the Conversion of the Indians?
This is spoken to in the following Discourse by the Reverend and Learned Mr. SOLOMON STODDARD of North-Hampton.
ROM. VIII. 19. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
PETER tells us that in Paul's Epistles there be same things that are hard to be Understood, and this verse and three following may well be accounted of that number. There are two Interpretations of this Text and Context, arising from the differing Exposition that is given of the word Creature. Some by creature do understand the frame of the visible World, consisting of the Celestial, and Elementary Regions, the Heavens with the goodly furniture of Stars, and the Earth with its ornaments, and the other Elements. And so they say that the creature; do by a fixed Instinct desire that original perfection wherein they were created which shall be restored to them at the Time of the manifestation of the Sons of God; that is, at the day of Judgment: it follows, v. 20. For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the some in hope. The Earth is under a curse,