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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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as thou art wont to do Wonders, conduct me still, that I may still prosper. I addressed my self to the Officer who Led me; I declared to him all that was in my Straw-Bed; I prayed him to save all that was there; promising to recompense him; he accepted the Offer: he himself emptied the bed before the Gentlemen; and caused it, to be carried up to me by little and little; but he kept a little of the Straw, with all my concerns, in my Straw Bed, and brought them to me himself Admire here the Protection of the King of Kings! A man I am unknown to him, and besides poor, and in Chains; judge if any other than God could make such a charge in the heart all at once? therefore give Praises to God for it; but Praises of Obedience as well as or Adoration. O, My dear Heart, how many testimonies do I receive of the powerful protection of my God! 'tis this that swallows up my Soul in a River of chaste delight in the midst of all the evil they make me suffer; the thought of His Goodness is so much the more sweet, in that he causes it to be frequent and sensible, to the forcing my very flesh to glorify him with joy. This is what cannot be comprehended, unless experienced!
as thou art wont to do Wonders, conduct me still, that I may still prosper. I address'd my self to the Officer who Led me; I declared to him all that was in my Straw-Bed; I pray'd him to save all that was there; promising to recompence him; he accepted the Offer: he himself empty'd the bed before the Gentlemen; and caus'd it, to be carried up to me by little and little; but he kept a little of the Straw, with all my concerns, in my Straw Bed, and brought them to me himself Admire here the Protection of the King of Kings! A man I am unknown to him, and besides poor, and in Chains; judge if any other than God could make such a charge in the heart all at once? therefore give Praises to God for it; but Praises of Obedience as well as or Adoration. O, My dear Heart, how many testimonies do I receive of the powerful protection of my God! 'tis this that swallows up my Soul in a River of chaste delight in the midst of all the evil they make me suffer; the thought of His Goodness is so much the more sweet, in that he causes it to be frequent and sensible, to the forcing my very flesh to glorify him with joy. This is what cannot be comprehended, unless experienced!