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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50133	Humiliations follow'd with deliverances a brief discourse on the matter and method of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity accompanied and accommodated with a narrative of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives from the hands of cruel Indians and some improvement of that narrative : whereunto is added A narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Swarton, Hannah.	1697 (1697)	Wing M1116; ESTC R19464	26,849	74

Humiliations follow'd with Deliverances A Brief Discourse On the MATTER and METHOD Of that HUMILIATION which would be an Hopeful Symptom of our Deliverance from Calamity Accompanied and Accommodated WITH A NARRATIVE Of a Notable Deliverance lately Received by some English Captives From the Hands of Cruel Indians And some Improvement of that Narrative Whereto is added A Narrative of Hannah Swarton containing a great many wonderful passages relating to her Captivity and Deliverance Boston in N. E. Printed by B Green J. Allen for Samuel Phillips at the Brick Shop 1697. Humiliations follow'd with Deliverances At Bost●n Lectu●e 6 d. 3. m. 1697. The Week before a General FAST 2 Chron XII 7. When the Lord saw that they Humbled themselves the Word of the Lord came unto Shemajah saying They have Humbled themselves I will not Destroy them but I will grant them some Deliverance WHen the Punishment of S●●rging was used upon a Criminal in Israel it was the O der and Usage that while the Executioner was Laying on his Thirteen and therein Forty save one Blowes with an Instrument every s●●oke whereof gave Three Lashes to the Delinq●●nt there were still present Three Judges whereof while one did Number the Blowes and another kept crying out Smite him a Third Read Three Scriptures during the Time of the Scourging and the Scourging Ended with the Reading of them The first Scripture was That in Deut. 28.58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this Law that be written in this Book that thou mayst Fear this Glorious and ●earful Name THE LORD THY GOD then the Lord will make thy Plagues wonderful The second Scripture was That in Deut. 29 9. Keep therefore the words of this Covenant and do them that you may prosper in all that ye do The last Scripture was That in Psal 78 38. But He being full of Compassion forgave their Iniquity and destroy'd them not This was done partly for the Admoniti●n partly for the Consolation of the Chastised Criminal Christians We are all sensible That the Scourges of Heaven have long been Employ'd upon us for our Crimes against the Holy and Just and Good Laws of the Lord our God Alas our Plagues have been wonderful We have been sorely Lashed with one Blow after another for our Delinquencies Who is there to Number the Blowes Yea The Anger of God is not for all this Turned away but His Hand stretched out still It is but proper while we are thus under our Punishment for us to have a Text of the Sacred Oracles agreeable unto our present State Read unto us Behold an Agreeable Text now singled out for our Entertainment I do the rather single it out because the next Week a General HUMILIATION is to be attended among us for which I cannot easily do a more Useful Thing than to give you a Praeparative while I am speaking unto the Christians of many Churches here come together in One Great Assembly In our Context we sind the People of God beginning to Forsake the Law of the Lord They many wayes Transgressed against Him Sad Calamity overtook them for this their Iniquity and Apostasy But God blessed the Preaching of His Prophet Shemajah unto them under this Calamity to produce a Notable Humiliaiion in them The Clauses now before us represent a blessed Effect of that Humiliation a gracious Promise of some Deliverance from Destruction was by that Prophet of the Lord when they Humbled themselves brought from the Lord unto them The Truth which Lies plainly before us is That when a Sinful People Humble themselves before the Almighty God it is an Hopeful and an Happy Symptom that He will not utterly Destroy such a People Now The CASE which this Encouraging Truth does at this Time Encourage us to speak unto is After what manner is the Self-Humiliation of a Pe●ple that would ●scape a Sore Destruction to be Expressed and Excited Which to speak yet more pertinently and profitably is to say After what manner are we our selves O our Dear People to Humble our selves before the Lord Give your Attention I. When we Paenitently Confess our Sins and much more when we vigorously ficform our Sins we Then do to good purpose Humble our selves before the God against whom we have Sinned More distinctly First A Paenitent Confession of Sin is that Self Humiliation which our God expects from such a people as our selves Thus in Luk. 18.13 14. He that said God be merciful to me a Sinner is He that Humbleth himself Thus Lev. 26.40 41. They that Confess their iniquity and the Iniquity of their Fathers have their Uncircumcised Hearts Humbled in their doing so Accordingly First In our Humiliations we ought seriously to Confess out Provocations to the Most Holy God and the Iniquities that we have done before Him who is of purer Eyes than to behold Iniquities But what a sad Catalogue of Provocations have we to b●ing forth before the Lord. When we Humble our selves I. Let us Humbly Confess That th● People of this Land in a growing Apostasy from that Religious Disposition that Signalized the first Planting of these Colonies have with multiplied Rebellions against the Almighty Sinned exceedingly II. Let us Humbly Confess That the Spirit of this World hath brought an Epidemical Death upon the Spirit and Power of Godliness III. Let us Humbly Confess That the Glorious Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ here Enjoy'd with much Plenty as well as Purity hath not been Thankfully and Fruitfully Entertained by those that have been Blessed with the Joyful Sound IV. Let us Humbly Confess That the Covenant of Grace Recognized in our Churches hath been by multitudes not submitted unto and of them that have submitted unto it multitudes have not walked according to the Sacred Obligations thereof V. Let us Humbly Confess That the Unreasonable Vices of Rash and Vain Swearing with Hellish Cursing in the Mouths of many have rendred them Guilty Sinners VI. Let us Humbly Confess That a Flood of Excessive Drinking hath begun to Drown much of Christianity yea and of Civility it self in many places among us VII Let us Humbly Confess That some English by Selling of Strong Drink unto the Indians have not only prejudiced among them the Successes of the Word of Life but also been the Faulty Bloody Occasions of Death unto them VIII Let us Humbly Confess That a Vanity of Apparrel hath been affected by many persons who have been so vain as to Glory in their Shame IX Let us Humbly Confess That wicked Sorceries have been practised in the Land and yet in the Troubles from the Devils thereby brought in among us those Errors on both Hands were committed which Who can understand X. Let us Humbly Confess That the Dayes of Sacred Rest among us have been disturbed with so many Profanation●● that we may not wonder if we See no Rest. XI Let us Humbly Confess That the woful Decay of good Family Discipline hath opened the Flood Gates for