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Winter meditations directions how to employ the leisure of the winter for the glory…
Winter meditations directions how to employ the leisure of the winter for the glory of God : accompanied with reflections as well historical as theological, not only upon the circumstances of winter, but also upon the notable works of God, both in creation and Providence ... / by Cotton Mather ; with a preface of John Higginson.
Boston: printed by Benj. Harris, 1693
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.
Although' the Lines are fallen to You, in the Pleasant Places, of a more Temperate Climate, yet the White Mantle of Snow at some Times covering that Happy Island also, bespeaks for it the old Name of Albion; and if at such Times, the Lessons which then we have here had at our Fingers Ends, may give You as Acceptable an Entertainment as they would a Seasonable One, my Satisfactions will even make me forget the Time of the Year.
Altho' the Lines are fallen to You, in the Pleasant Places, of a more Temperate Climate, yet the White Mantle of Snow at some Times covering that Happy Island also, bespeaks for it the old Name of Albion; and if at such Times, the Lessons which then we have here had at our Fingers Ends, may give You as Acceptable an Entertainment as they would a Seasonable One, my Satisfactions will even make me forget the Time of the Year.
A most Excellent Pen, long since did publicly describe You, as a Person, who were by Your Faith In Cacumine Olympi constitutus, supra Ventes et Processas; above the Blasts and Storms of this Unquiet World. But. I persuade my self, that a Treatise produced in the Months, that are full of Natural Blasts and Storms, will have in it nothing Disagreeable to that Serenity of Soul, wherein Your Faith has placed You.
A most Excellent Pen, long since did publickly describe You, as a Person, who were by Your Faith In Cacumine Olympi constitutus, supra Ventes et Processas; above the Blasts and Storms of this Unquiet World. But. I perswadè my self, that a Treatise produced in the Months, that are full of Natural Blasts and Storms, will have in it nothing Disagreeable to that Serenity of Soul, wherein Your Faith has placed You.
The Day comes on apace, when the World which was once Drowned, propter Ardorem Libidinis, will now be Burned, propter Teporem Charicatis. I have here made for a few of my Friends, an Essay, To fetch out one Cord by another; and albeit it would not be easy for to find All that should Less Need the Admonitions of this