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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 4: Conclusion. IV.
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II. Let us Humbly Plead with God, the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, not only for our own Souls, but let every Soul do it, for this whole Congregation. The Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, is not only, pleadable for Persons, but also for Peoples, that belong unto Him. Alas, my Friends; 'Tis utterly a Fault among us, That we make too little use of our Lord Jesus Christ. Particularly, In our Prayers and our Cares, for the welfare of our whole Congregation, we make too little Use of this All-sufficient Sacrifice. We read in I Sam. 7. 9, 10. Samuel offered a Burnt Offering wholly unto the Lord, and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him: And as Samuel was offering up the Burnt Offering, the Lord Thundered with a great Thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them. It may be, if we had more pleaded the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, that Lamb of God, for our Israel, the Lord would have long ere now, heard our Cries, and Thundered with a great Thunder on our Philistean Adversaries. I may tell you, Sirs; We are not less Accommodated with a Sacrifice for our Land, than the Old Church of Israel was for Theirs!
II. Let us Humbly Plead with God, the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, not only for our own Souls, but let every Soul do it, for this whole Congregation. The Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, is not only, pleadable for Persons, but also for Peoples, that belong unto Him. Alas, my Friends; 'Tis utterly a Fault among us, That we make too little use of our Lord Jesus Christ. Particularly, In our Prayers and our Cares, for the welfare of our whole Congregation, we make too little Use of this Alsufficient Sacrifice. We read in I Sam. 7. 9, 10. Samuel offered a Burnt Offering wholly unto the Lord, and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him: And as Samuel was offering up the Burnt Offering, the Lord Thundered with a great Thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them. It may be, if we had more pleaded the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, that Lamb of God, for our Israel, the Lord would have long e're now, heard our Cries, and Thundered with a great Thunder on our Philistean Adversaries. I may tell you, Syrs; We are not less Accommodated with a Sacrifice for our Land, than the Old Church of Israel was for Theirs!