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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 Short Account OF THE PERSECUTION Lately Harassing the French Protestants. Introducing, An Excellent LETTER, newly, Received from one of them, at this Time a Prisoner in France: but formerly an Inhabitant of New-England.
FRANCE having had the Rays of Evangelical Truth shot from Heaven into it, the Professors of the Truth have all along there Suffered a wonderful Persecution from its Popish Enemies. None but the Books, to be shortly Opened, at the Coming of our Lord, can contain the Terrible and Barbarous Things, which His Confessors, in that Kingdom, have Suffered from the Spirit of Antichrist working in Idolaters. One single Church of Protestants there, within a little while, afforded Sixteen Thousand Martyrs for the Protestant ⟨p. 4⟩Religion, and many afforded Five Thousand Seven, Eight, Nine, Twelve, Thirteen Thousand a piece. However, in the midst of these Martyrdoms, the Almighty Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, so disposed the Hearts of men to Serve Him, that above Two Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Churches were Gathered; in many of which, there were above Ten Thousand Communicants; yea, persons of the Highest Quality Espoused their Cause; Princes did submit unto the Golden Sceptre of the Messiah, in their Holy Discipline; and Nobles became the Pastors and Elders of their Churches.
FRANCE having had the Rayes of Evangelical Truth shot from Heaven into it, the Professors of the Truth have all along there Suffered a wonderful Persecution from its Popish Enemies. None but the Books, to be shortly Opened, at the Coming of our Lord, can contain the Terrible and Barbarous Things, which His Confessors, in that Kingdom, have Suffered from the Spirit of Antichrist working in Idolaters. One single Church of Protestants there, within a little while, afforded Sixteen Thousand Martyrs for the Protestant ⟨p. 4⟩Religion, and many afforded Five Thousand Seven, Eight, Nine, Twelve, Thirteen Thousand a piece. However, in the midst of these Martyrdoms, the Almighty Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, so disposed the Hearts of men to Serve Him, that above Two Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Churches were Gathered; in many of which, there were above Ten Thousand Communicants; yea, persons of the Highest Quality Espoused their Cause; Princes did submit unto the Golden Scepter of the Messiah, in their Holy Discipline; and Nobles became the Pastors and Elders of their Churches.