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Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes…
Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes on the minds of people that have been awakened with them. : With some views of what is to be further and quickly looked for. : Addressed unto the whole people of New-England, who have been terrified with the late earthquakes; and more especially the towns that have had a more singular share in the terrors of them. : [Three lines from I Chronicles]Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes on the minds of people that have been awakened with them. : With some views of what is to be further and quickly look'd for. : Address'd unto the whole people of New-England, who have been terrified with the late earthquakes; and more especially the towns that have had a more singular share in the terrors of them. : [Three lines from I Chronicles]
Boston: printed for S. Kneeland, 1727
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
I freely own to you, that I am not entirely satisfied in a Form of Covenanting with GOD, wherein we act our selves as Principals, and a Glorious CHRIST is brought in only as an Accessary. Tho' an exceeding great Multitude which no Man can Number, have been brought home to GOD in that Form, yet, I judge, the more Evangelical the Form is, and the more that ⟨p. 34⟩CHRIST is All in it, it is the Better, and the Surer, and the Faster. The Style of your Good Purposes is to be such as This; O Great GOD, Be Thou my GOD. I am not able to pay unto Thee the Homage of PIETY, in the Duties of it, which I owe unto Thee. But, I Desire, I Desire to do it; I desire to do these Duties. My Blessed JESUS has engaged that His People shall, through' Him acting as a Principle of Life in them, do these Duties; And it is my Desire to be comprehended in this Engagement, and be Found in Him. I Consent, I Consent, That He should cause me to do them; and work in me all that is well-pleasing in the sight of GOD. I put my self under His Conduct, that He may do so. And even in my giving this Consent, it is His Help that has brought me to it.— Now, O Evangelized Soul, Go on, and prosper.
I freely own to you, that I am not entirely satisfied in a Form of Covenanting with GOD, wherein we act our selves as Principals, and a Glorious CHRIST is brought in only as an Accessary. Tho' an exceeding great Multitude which no Man can Number, have been brought home to GOD in that Form, yet, I judge, the more Evargelical the Form is, and the more that ⟨p. 34⟩CHRIST is All in it, it is the Better, and the Surer, and the Faster. The Style of your Good Purposes is to be such as This; O Great GOD, Be Thou my GOD. I am not able to pay unto Thee the Homage of PIETY, in the Duties of it, which I owe unto Thee. But, I Desire, I Desire to do it; I desire to do these Duties. My Blessed JESUS has engaged that His People shall, thro' Him acting as a Principle of Life in them, do these Duties; And it is my Desire to be comprehended in this Engagement, and be Found in Him. I Consent, I Consent, That He should cause me to do them; and work in me all that is well-pleasing in the sight of GOD. I put my self under His Conduct, that He may do so. And even in my giving this Consent, it is His Help that has brought me to it.— Now, O Evangelized Soul, Go on, and prosper.