A50172:94
The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the…
The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the governor, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England on May 23, 1690 by Cotton Mather.The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the governour, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England on May 23, 1690 by Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris, 1690
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
MANTISSA.
Thus have the Words of God been Calling upon us, to beware of Loosing His gracious Presence. Now the Presence of God, will either go or stay with His Gospel; and the Principal Danger of New-England lies in its giving an ill Entertainment unto that glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus. Let us then see whether the Works of God, have not also been calling upon us to take heed of that Epidemical Evil; and let what has befallen some of our Neighbours, in our days be produced as a Warning unto us to avoid any Contempt of that Gospel, which others have smarted for the Slighting of.
THus have the Words of God been Calling upon us, to beware of Loosing His gracious Presence. Now the Presence of God, will either go or stay with His Gospel; and the Principal Danger of New-England lies in its giving an ill Entertainment unto that glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus. Let us then see wether the Works of God, have not also been calling upon us to take heed of that Epidemical Evil; and let what has befallen some of our Neighbours, in our dayes be produced as a Warning unto us to avoid any Contempt of that Gospel, which others have smarted for the Slighting of.
I would fill the Remaining pages of this sheet with a Discourse fetched from a Reserved Collection of MEMORABLE PROVIDENCES, not improper to be produced on this Occasion.
I would fill the Remaining pages of this sheet with a Discourse fetch't from a Reserved Collection of MEMORABLE PROVIDENCES, not improper to be produced on this Occasion.