N02150:48
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.
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?
WE are to Consider,
I. WHAT are the Things that belong unto our Peace:
PEACE is a very comprehensive Word. It may in the Notation of it be somewhat Narrow. The English Word, Peace, as the Latin Pax, comes [a Pactione] from a Word that signifies, Covenanting. The Greek Word, [[Greek or Hebrew], a Connectendo,] strictly taken intimates no more than a Knitting together. But in the Acceptation of it, it is exceeding Broad. It comprehends all manner of Good. The most comprehensive Salutation the Holy Language can find, is, Peace be to you.
PEACE is a very comprehensive Word. It may in the Notation of it be somewhat Narrow. The English Word, Peace, as the Latin Pax, comes [a Pactione] from a Word that signifies, Covenanting. The Greek Word, [, a Connectendo,] strictly taken intimates no more than a Knitting together. But in the Acceptation of it, it is exceeding Broad. It comprehends all manner of Good. The most comprehensive Salutation the Holy Language can find, is, Peace be to you.