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Religious societies. Proposals for the revival of dying religion, by well ordered societies for…
Religious societies. Proposals for the revival of dying religion, by well ordered societies for that purpose. : With a brief discourse, offered unto a religious society, on the first day of their meeting. : [One line from I Thessalonians]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for John Phillips, 1724
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Pure and Peaceable Wisdom. Delivered unto a RELIGIOUS SOCIETY, On the First Day of their Meeting.
SHOULD our Gracious GOD open our Eyes to Discern and incline our Hearts to Regard, the Good Things of His House and Kingdom, wherewith He abundantly satisfies us, and the Waters of the Sanctuary, which run into our very Doors, we could not without a Prodigy of Ingratitude and Stupidity do any other, than lift up our Hands to Heaven, and say concerning this Place, Happy art thou, O people; Who is like unto thee! We are this Day entering on the Enjoyment of Advantages, which many desire to see and cannot; Advantages to improve in PIETY, and Edify one another; Advantages to do those Things which may reader our Lives Useful and our Deaths Gainful But because we read of some who know not the Day of their Visitation, I have chosen those Words of GOD our SAVIOUR for our Admonition.
LUKE XIX. 42. If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy Peace.
WHO spoke these Words, and of whom, and when, and why, is well known unto us. What I am immediately to endeavour, is to answer Three QUESTIONS upon them. First, What are the Things that belong unto our Peace? Then, What it is for us to know these things? And lastly, When it may be said, that a Day for that Purpose is vouchsafed unto us?