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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 that our Obedience unto God may be furthered, by the very Constitution of the winter, we should do well, upon the several Things therein occurring, to make our Occasional Reflections. We may Spiritualize the winter, and we may have such Thoughts thereby Raised in our Minds, and such Lessons, and such Wishes, as may bring unto us the Life and Peace, which the Spiritually minded have in their being so. We will Exemplify a few of those innumerable Devout Thoughts, wherein the winter sometimes hath provoked a serious Man, to address the God that made the winter: and I will confine my self to the Scripture in them all.
But that our Obedience unto God may be furthered, by the very Constitution of the winter, we should do well, upon the several Things therein occurring, to make our Occasional Reflections. We may Spiritualize the winter, and we may have such Thoughts thereby Raised in our Minds, and such Lessons, and such VVishes, as may bring unto us the Life and Peace, which the Spiritually minded have in their being so. We will Exemplifie a few of those innumerable Devout Thoughts, wherein the winter sometimes hath provoked a serious Man, to address the God that made the winter: and I will confine my self to the Scripture in them all.
The first among all the Meteors of the winter, that uses to be considered, is that of, The WIND, which Plato defines as well as any since, to be, The motion of the Air about the Earth.
Asper ab Axe ruit Boreas, furit Eurus ab ortu, Auster amat medium solem, Zephyrusque cadentem.