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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 lit… › DOCTRINE,
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USE, II. Of Examination. Whether GOD is not Angry with the Country for not preaching the Gospel to the Heathen? That GOD is […] with the Country, and has been these threescore years, has been evident by His sending Epidemical Diseases and Devourers; And it greatly becomes us to enquire into the Causes of God's Anger: many things index are satisfied in are the cause of Anger: if God is not angry for this; yet there is cause enough of Anger. But we have special Reason to enquire whether he is not angry for this; because it is taken notice of in England, and we are reflected on in Print, that we have little care of the Heathen; it was miles notice of above Forty Years ago. Another creation for enquiry i•. I hat God has made them a terrible scourge to […] that by their joining with the French; and in this present Wa•: These Wars have been very expensive, and bloody, and have made many Towns desolate, and many times the affliction carries the token of the sin; by the Punishment, sometimes Men may learn the […]. They are instruments to punish us, it may be we have not done our duty to them.
USE, II. Of Examination. Whether GOD is not Angry with the Country for not preaching the Gospel to the Heathen? That GOD is 〈…〉 with the Country, and has been these threescore years, has been evident by His sending Epidemical Discases and Devourers; And it greatly becomes us to enquire into the Causes of God's Anger: many things index are satisfyed in are the cause of Anger: if God is not angry for this; yet there is cause enough of Anger. But we have special Reason to enquire whether he is not angry for this; because it is taken notice of in England, and we are reflected on in Print, that we have little care of the Heathen; it was miles notice of above Forty Years ago. Another creation for enquiry i•. I hat God has made them a terrible scourge to 〈…〉 that by their joyning with the French; and in this present Wa•: These Wars have been very expensive, and bloody, and have made many Towns desolate, and many times the affliction carries the token of the sin; by the Punishment, sometimes Men may learn the 〈…〉. They are instruments to punish us, it may be we have not done our duty to them.