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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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Do This, when you are Asunder, in daily, frequent, solemn Supplications. But especially when you are Together, Then, Then, is a special Opportunity, for this your Faith, to be Exercised. Can a General Assembly of the Representatives of a Province, do a better thing than This; To, Join as one man in Solemn Devotions, with Fasting and Prayer, and Laying their Hands more Explicitly than ever on the Head of our Great Sacrifice?
Do This, when you are Asunder, in dayly, frequent, solemn Supplications. But especially when you are Together, Then, Then, is a speciall Opportunity, for this your Faith, to be Exercised. Can a General Assembly of the Representatives of a Province, do a better thing than This; To, Joyn as one man in Solemn Devotions, with Fasting and Prayer, and Laying their Hands more Explicitly than ever on the Head of our Great Sacrifice?
Oh! were this Thing in a due manner done, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would Earnestly Remember us: My Bowels would be Troubled for them. I would surely have Mercy on them, saith the Lord. The Great God would say to the Destroying Angel, Put up thy Sword; I will require no further Sacrifice for the Congregation; Through the Sacrifice if my Son, I am well pleased, and Atoned. Then, as after the Sin Offering for the People, in Lev. 9. 15, 23. He brought the Peoples Offering,—And Moses and Aaron came put, and Blessed the People, and the ⟨p. 53⟩Glory of the Lord appeared unto all the […]. So, the Blessing of God would now rest our People; Salvation would be Nigh unto and Glory dwell in our Land.
Oh! were this Thing in a due manner done, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would Earnestly Remember us: My Bowels would be Troubled for them. I would surely have Mercy on them, saith the Lord. The Great God would say to the Destroying Angel, Put up thy Sword; I will require no further Sacrifice for the Congregation; Through the Sacrifice if my Son, I am well pleased, and Atoned. Then, as after the Sin Offering for the People, in