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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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Behold, I bring you Good News of Great Joy, for all the People of New England.
You have it in LEV. IV. 21. A Sin-Offering for the Congregation.
I Behold no less than a Congregation of our whole Province, met at this Time, in one GREAT AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The most Happy and Joyful Tidings, that ever were uttered in any Assembly are now to be brought unto YOU, O Congregation of the Lord.
Never did any Sinful congregation more want a Sacrifice, to Appease the Exasperated. Indignation of Heaven: Our multiplied So have so provoked the God of Heaven, that we are ⟨p. 23⟩Consumed by his Anger, and by His Wrath we are Troubled: The offended Majesty of Heaven, is every day Seizing on our Friends, and Seizing on our Fields, and Seizing on our Ships, and Seizing on our Stores, and Seizing on our very Lives, for Sacrifices. But you are now Entertained, with the Advice, of a Sacrifice for the Congregation; a Sacrifice, whereto if we do in a right manner Apply our selves, out God will call for no further Sacrifices from among us, to Atone His Incensed Majesty: Our Adversity will soon be turned into Prosperity; and we shall Sing that Song, O Lord, I will praise thee, for tho' thou wast Angry with me, thine Anger is turned away, and thou wilt comfort me.