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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 1: Conclusion I.
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Conclusion I.
We have Sinned against the God that made us, and our Sin loudly and sadly calls for a Sacrifice unto the God against whom we have Sinned.
The Blessed God hath given a Law to His Creatures; and a Law Armed with a Penalty. Without a Law, we cannot suppose a Sin committed; and without a Penalty, we cannot suppose a Law significant. If this Law be violated, the Just God has obliged Himself, that the Penalty of it shall be Executed. The Punishment of Sin is upon this presupposal, become a Necessary Thing; 'Tis Necessarily expected from that Holy God, who, as we read in Exod. 34. 7 Will by no means clear the Guilty; and who, as we read, Psal. 5. 4. Is not a God that hath Pleasure in wickedness. The Natural Conscience of man therefore Terrifies him, with such an Expectation; ⟨p. 25⟩God has written it upon the Souls of men, with a Pen of Iron, and a point of a Diamond; Men that are never so Barbarous, are smitten with Apprehensions of a VENGEANCE, that Sin must be followed withal.
The Blessed God hath given a Law to His Creatures; and a Law Arm'd with a Penalty. Without a Law, we cannot suppose a Sin committed; and without a Penalty, we cannot suppose a Law significant. If this Law be violated, the Just God has obliged Himself, that the Penalty of it shall be Executed. The Punishment of Sin is upon this presupposal, become a Necessary Thing; 'Tis Necessarily expected from that Holy God, who, as we read in Exod. 34. 7 Will by no means clear the Guilty; and who, as we read,