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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.
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.
Let All men fly to the Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, first for themselves: Thou, O man, must thy self becoming a Sacrifice to the Burning Revenges of God, and Suffer the Vengeance of Eternal Fire, if thou do it not! Now, if every man in the Land, would thus assure his own Interest in the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, there would be None in the Land, under the offence of Heaven But, until Then, [and therefore, Always!] a few must Act Faith for all the rest. And there is not any One Christian among all this people, but what may and should ⟨p. 51⟩put in suit, the Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, for all the people. As the Sin of some ONE person, may go a great way, to pull down the Wrath of Heaven, upon the Whole Congregation: ONE Achan, Did not that ONE MAN Sin, and the Lord was wroth with the Whole Congregation! So, who can tell, how far the Faith of ONE Person, in the Sacrifice for the Congregation, may go to avert the Wrath of Heaven from us all? ONE Amos, (and so, ONE poor, obscure, Devout Husbandman, or Mechanic!) may be Instrumental to Save a Congregation from Desolation!
Let All men fly to the Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, first for themselves: Thou, O man, must thy self becoming a Sacrifice to the Burning Revenges of God, and Suffer the Vengeance of Eternal Fire, if thou do it not! Now, if every man in the Land, would thus assure his own Interest in the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, there would be None in the Land, under the offence of Heaven But, until Then, [and therefore, Alwayes!] a few must Act Faith for all the rest. And there is not any One Christian among all this people, but what may and should ⟨p. 51⟩put in suit, the Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, for all the people. As the Sin of some ONE person, may go a great way, to pull down the Wrath of Heaven, upon the Whole Congregation: ONE Achan, Did not that ONE MAN Sin, and the Lord was wroth with the Whole Congregation! So, who can tell, how far the Faith of ONE Person, in the Sacrifice for the Congregation, may go to avert the Wrath of Heaven from us all? ONE Amos, (and so, ONE poor, obscure, Devout Husbandman, or Mechanick!) may be Instrumental to Save a Congregation from Desolation!