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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.
But as the Winter brings much of MERCY to us, it brings much of Hardship too? Pliny calls the Snow, and the Ice, the Punishments of the Mountains. We who dwell in a plain Region, as well as they who dwell upon the Rigid and Ragged Edges of such Mountains, would be sorely Punished, by the Hardship of the Winter, if the Mercy of our God should not Relieve us. It was said, in Job 38.•2, 23. Hast thou Entered into the Treasures of the Snow? Or, hast thou seen the Treasures of the Hail? which I have Reserved against the Time of Trouble. Truly, the Time of Snow, and the ⟨p. 41⟩Time of Hail, would be a sore Time of Trouble unto us, if God should not from the other Treasures of his Bounty, therein make a Comfortable Provision for us. This I would say; The Common Mercies of God are a Ground, and call for more than Common Praises to God. May we from this Time, Resolve to be more than ordinarily Thankful for our Common Mercies, and we have to Extraordinary Good Purpose now Spent the Time of this present Exercise.
But as the Winter brings much of MERCY to us, it brings much of Hardship too? •liny calls the Snow, and the Ice, the Punishments of the Mountains. We who dwell in a plain Region, as well as they who dwell upon the Rigid and Ragged Edges of such Mountains, would be sorely Punished, by the Hardship of the Winter, if the Mercy of our God should not Relieve us. It was said, in Job 38.•2, 23. Hast thou Entred into the Treasures of the Snow? Or, hast thou seen the Treasures of the Hail? which I have Reserved against the Time of Trouble. Truly, the Time of Snow, and the ⟨p. 41⟩Time of Hail, would be a sore Time of Trouble unto us, if God should not from the other Treasures of his Bounty, therein make a Comfortable Provision for us. This I would say; The Common Mercies of God are a Ground, and call for more than Common Praises to God. May we from this Time, Resolve to be more than ordinarily Thankful for our Common Mercies, and we have to Extraordinary Good Purpose now Spent the Time of this present Exercise.