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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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But God granting a Time of Rest, unto those his Flocks, they soon Degenerated. Such a Degeneracy, and such a Dissolution quickly broke in upon them, that the Last of their National Synods, held at Loudun, 1659 in an Act, called for an Extraordinary Humiliation, to Wrestle with God, for the Bowels of His Compassions, which had been forfeited, by Aggravated Sins, and beseech Him, to extinguish the Fire of His Indignation, which menaced His poor Churches, with the severest Chastisement: for they saw with Horror, all sorts of Sins against the Divine Law, daily multiplied, so that they had cause to fear, Left God should pour out the […] of His Fury upon the Land without sparing His poor Church, […] separated from the World, by the […] is too often plunged in the Corruptions of that Age in ⟨p. 5⟩which it liveth. Behold! now, those Threatened Vials of the Wrath of God, poured out!
But God granting a Time of Rest, unto those his Flocks, they soon Degenerated. Such a Degeneracy, and such a Dissolution quickly broke in upon them, that the Last of their National Synods, held at Loudun, 1659 in an Act, called for an Extraordinary Humiliation, to Wrestle with God, for the Bowels of His Compassions, which had been forfeited, by Aggravated Sins, and beseech Him, to extinguish the Fire of His Indignation, which menaced His poor Churches, with the severest Chastisement: for they saw with Horror, all sorts of Sins against the Divine Law, daily multiplied, so that they had cause to fear, Left God should pour out the 〈…〉 of His Fury upon the Land without sparing His poor Church, 〈…〉 separated from the World, by the 〈…〉 is too often plunged in the Corruptions of that Age in ⟨p. 5⟩which it liveth. Behold! now, those Threatned Vials of the Wrath of God, poured out!
It was by the Loyalty of the Protestants, that the present French King, obtained the Quiet Possession of his Crown; and their Adversaries at the Court, made the very Services of the Protestants unto their King an Argument & Occasion for their Destruction. The Popish Clergy suggested, That if the Protestants were to considerable, as to Save the State from Ruin, they might as easily Ruin the State at another Time, in siding with its Enemies. An Extirpation of the Reformed Religion in France, was hereupon Resolved; and the most horrible and barbarous things that can be imagined, wore after the year 1660. done, in pursuance of this Resolution. All the Cruelties and Butcheries perpetrated by the Children of Cain, in former Ages, hardly equal, the Persecution, which now sell upon the Reformed, like an irresistible Tempest: The Characters of such a Persecution, animated by the most Exalted Spirit of Hell, are too terrible to be described, otherwise, than as the Painter Portrayed the Spanish Inquisition, besmearing his whole Table with Blood.