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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.
THE Second is, REPENTANCE. 'Tis our League with Sin, that produces a War between GOD and Man. Your Iniquities have separated! Indeed, the Sinner blesses himself, saying, I shall have Peace. But what an Alarm of War has GOD sounded against him? [See Deut. XXIX 19, 20.] Where Joram said unto Jehu, Is it Peace, Jehu? He answered, What Peace as long as the Whoredoms & the Witchcrafts are so many? So may it be said unto the Impenitent Sinner, What Peace, as long as thy Indulged Impieties are so many? And that Peal may be rung in his Ears; Isai XLVIII. 22. There is no Peace, saith my GOD, unto the Wicked. Indeed, Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts; and All shall be well. But, If be turn not, the Almighty hath what a Sword, and bent a Bow; and prepared for him the Instruments of Death. Every Impenitent Sinner, is a Desperado of that Number, [Act. V. 39.] They are found even to fight against GOD; Yea, That stretch out their hand against GOD, and strengthen themselves ⟨p. 5⟩against the Almighty, and run upon Him, even upon His Neck, upon the thick Bosses of His Buckler. Alas, The way of Peace they have not known.
THE Second is, REPENTANCE. 'Tis our League with Sin, that produces a War between GOD and Man. Your Iniquities have separated! Indeed, the Sinner blesses himself, saying, I shall have Peace. But what an Alarum of War has GOD sounded against him? [See Deut. XXIX 19, 20.] Where Joram said unto Jehu, Is it Peace, Jehu? He answered, What Peace as long as the Whoredoms & the Witchcrafts are so many? So may it be said unto the Impenitent Sinner, What Peace, as long as thy Indulged Impieties are so many? And that Peal may be rung in his Ears; Isai XLVIII. 22. There is no Peace, saith my GOD, unto the Wicked. Indeed, Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts; and All shall be well. But, If be turn not, the Almighty hath what a Sword, and bent a Bow; and prepared for him the Instruments of Death. Every Impenitent Sinner, is a Desperado of that Number, [Act. V. 39.] They are found even to fight against GOD; Yea, That stretch out their hand against GOD, and strengthen themselves ⟨p. 5⟩against the Almighty, and run upon Him, even upon His Neck, upon the thick Bosses of His Buckler. Alas, The way of Peace they have not known.