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A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A…A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A…
A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this country. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this countrey. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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A Brief DISCOURSE, Made unto the Great and General Assembly of the… › Conclusion 4: Conclusion. IV.
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First; Nothing will have such a Tendency to a General Reformation, as to fly more generally to the Great Sacrifice for the Congregation than we do. It may be, the General Reformation so much desired and required, hitherto sticks at This; the Great Sacrifice for the Congregation is not first of all enough Recognized: Our Attempts about a General Reformation prove abortive, because we Attempt it, with too much of the Spirit of the Old Covenant Prevailing in us. Mark What I say; A Sin will never be thoroughly Reformed, until it be Pardoned.
First; Nothing will have such a Tendency to a General Reformation, as to fly more generally to the Great Sacrifice for the Congregation than we do. It may be, the General Reformation so much desired and required, hitherto sticks at This; the Great Sacrifice for the Congregation is not first of all enough Recognized: Our Attempts about a General Reformation prove abortive, because we Attempt it, with too much of the Spirit of the Old Covenant Prevailing in us. Mark What I say; A Sin will never be thorowly Reformed, until it be Pardoned.
Secondly; We are to plead the Great Sacrifice for the Congregation, that so we may obtain from God, the Grace for a General Reformation. God must be petitioned, for a General Reformation, as purchase by the Great Sacrifice for the Congregation: The Spirit which is to Dispose us, and Assist us, unto a General Reformation is the purchase of the Blood of our Lord. Our Lord Jesus Christ hath been made a Sacrifice, to obtain the Reformation of His People, and purify us to Himself a peculiar people, zealous of Good works.
III. Let us, with much Abhorrence of our Sins, and of our Selves for our Sins, Confess over the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, the many Sins, by which we have, as a Congregation exposed our selves unto the Displeasure of God. As in one peculiar Sin Offering