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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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Sirs, We cannot be too Exact, in these Confessions of our Sins, and in Enquiries after the sad Occasions for these Confessions. Our Land may be more Denied with Sin, than we are well aware; for sometimes the miscarriages of One man, may be equivalent unto those of the Whole Congregation. It is Remarkable; If a Priest Sinned, there must be as Great an Offering for him, as for the Whole Congregation besides. Why, what would become of us, if the Whole Congregation should fall into filthy Wantonness, or, ⟨p. 50⟩if the Whole Congregation should fall into beastly Drunkenness, or, if the Whole Congregation should fall into Scandalous Covetousness? Alas, if any in Chief Place among us, do Sin at that rate, on those doleful occasions, we are to Abase our selves, as if the Whole Congregation were become Abominable before the Lord. But how much then ought they themselves, who have brought the Whole Congregation Lo; for ever Lie Low before the Lord and cry out unto His Whole Congregation, Calcate me, Insipidum Salem, Calcate me!
Syrs, We cannot be too Exact, in these Confessions of our Sins, and in Enquiries after the sad Occasions for these Confessions. Our Land may be more Denied with Sin, than we are well aware; for sometimes the miscarriages of One man, may be equivalent unto those of the Whole Congregation. It is Remarkable; If a Priest Sinned, there must be as Great an Offering for him, as for the Whole Congregation besides. Why, what would become of us, if the Whole Congregation should fall into filthy Wantonness, or, ⟨p. 50⟩if the Whole Congregation should fall into beastly Drunkenness, or, if the Whole Congregation should fall into Scandalous Coveteousness? Alas, if any in Chief Place among us, do Sin at that rate, on those doleful occasions, we are to Abase our selves, as if the Whole Congregation were become Abominable before the Lord. But how much then ought they themselves, who have brought the Whole Congregation Lo; for ever Ly Low before the Lord and cry out unto His Whole Congregation, Calcate me, Insipidum Salem, Calcate me!