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Humiliations followed with deliverances. A brief discourse on the matter and method, of that…Humiliations follow'd with deliverances. A brief discourse on the matter and method, of that…
Humiliations followed with deliverances. A brief discourse on the matter and method, of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity. : Accompanied and accommodated with a narrative, of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives, from the hands of cruel Indians. And some improvement of that narrative. : Whereto is added a narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.Humiliations follow'd with deliverances. A brief discourse on the matter and method, of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity. : Accompanied and accomodated with a narrative, of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives, from the hands of cruel Indians. And some improvement of that narrative. : Whereto is added a narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.
printed by B Green for Samuel Phillips, 1697
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.
Christians, We are all sensible, That the Scourges of Heaven, have long been Employed upon us, for our Crimes against the Holy and Just and Good Laws of the Lord our God: Alas, our Plagues have been wonderful! We have been sorely Lashed, with one Blow after another, ⟨p. 5⟩for our Delinquencies. Who is there to Number the Blows? Yea, The Anger of God, is not for all this Turned away, but His Hand stretched out still! It is but proper, while we are thus under our Punishment, for us, to have a Text of the Sacred Oracles, agreeable unto our present State, Read unto us. Behold, an Agreeable Text, now singled out, for our Entertainment; & I do the rather single it out because the next Week, a General HUMILIATION is to be attended among us; for which, I cannot easily do a more Useful Thing, than to give you a Preparative; while I am speaking unto th• Christians of many Churches, here come together, in One Great Assembly.
Christians, We are all sensible, That the Scourges of Heaven, have long been Employ'd upon us, for our Crimes against the Holy and Just and Good Laws of the Lord our God: Alas, our Plagues have been wonderful! We have been sorely Lashed, with one Blow after another, ⟨p. 5⟩for our Delinquencies. Who is there to Number the Blowes? Yea, The Anger of God, is not for all this Turned away, but His Hand stretched out still! It is but proper, while we are thus under our Punishment, for us, to have a Text of the Sacred Oracles, agreeable unto our present State, Read unto us. Behold, an Agreeable Text, now singled out, for our Entertainment; & I do the rather single it out because the next Week, a General HUMILIATION is to be attended among us; for which, I cannot easily do a more Useful Thing, than to give you a Praeparative; while I am speaking unto th• Christians of many Churches, here come together, in One Great Assembly.
In our Context, we find the People of God, beginning to Forsake the Law of the Lord: They many ways Transgressed against Him. Sad Calamity overtook them, for this their Iniquity, and Apostasy; But God blssed the Preaching of His Prophet Shemajh unto them, under this Calamity to produce a Notable Humiliation in them. The Clauses now before us, represent a blessed Effect of that Humiliation; a gracious Promise of sme Deliverance