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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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It is meet that I excite you to bless God with me, my Dear Heart: for in the midst of all my troubles the Eternal Exercises an admirable care about all that concerns me. You may understand that when I was Aboard the Galley, I employed my self in Copying out some good Sermons, which my Friends gave me. I had about twenty of them, one half whereof I left in an house Ashore, that if they came to search me I might not lose them all at once. In going into the Citadel, they took from me seven of the Sermons, with an English Bible, and an Exposition of the Fifty First Psalm in English, ⟨p. 16⟩and another little English Book, all which remained at the Majors till I came out. As I came out, I asked for them, they gave them to the Provost: God touched his heart; for when I was in the Boat, he gave them to me, and as I went into the Fort, no one took them from me, tho' they saw them; only they kicked them with their feet; and so they are still with me, by the same goodness of my God. Sing therefore to him, My dear Wife, a Song of Praise and Acknowledgement; for our enemies are not willing that we should have either Book or Inkhorn.
It is meet that I excite you to bless God with me, my Dear Heart: for in the midst of all my troubles the Eternal Exercises an admirable care about all that concerns me. You may understand that when I was Aboard the Gally, I employed my self in Copying out some good Sermons, which my Friends gave me. I had about twenty of them, one half whereof I left in an house Ashore, that if they came to search me I might not lose them all at once. In going into the Cittadelle, they took from me seven of the Sermons, with an English Bible, and an Exposition of the Fifty First Psalm in English, ⟨p. 16⟩and another little English Book, all which remained at the Majors till I came out. As I came out, I asked for them, they gave them to the Provost: God touched his heart; for when I was in the Boat, he gave them to me, and as I went into the Fort, no one took them from me, tho' they saw them; only they kick'd them with their feet; and so they are still with me, by the same goodness of my God. Sing therefore to him, My dear Wife, a Song of Praise and Acknowledgment; for our enemies are not willing that we should have either Book or Inkborn.