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The day of trouble is near. Two sermons wherein is showed, what are the…The day of trouble is near. Two sermons wherein is shewed, what are the…
The day of trouble is near. Two sermons wherein is showed, what are the signs of a day of trouble being near. And particularly, what reason there is for New-England to expect a day of trouble. Also what is to be done, that we may escape these things which shall come to pass. Preached (the 11th day of the 12th month, 1673. Being a day of humiliation in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, teacher of that church. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts]The day of trouble is near. Two sermons wherein is shewed, what are the signs of a day of trouble being near. And particularly, what reason there is for New-England to expect a day of trouble. Also what is to be done, that we may escape these things which shall come to pass. Preached (the 11th day of the 12th moneth, 1673. Being a day of humiliation in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, teacher of that church. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1674
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.
A wonderful Security, that […] such a season he should mind his Kingdom no more, for at this very time the City was besieged with Enemies. But the ⟨p. 9⟩Chaldeans thought with themselves, they had the River Euphrates, and a triple Wall belonging to the City to secure them,1 and also twenty years Provision wherewith they were stored, so that they laughed at Cyrus his Expedition against them: well but, that very night was Belshazzar the King of the Chaldeans slain, and Darius the Median took the Kingdom. And the like is to be said concerning Mystical Babylon; at that very time when Rome shall say in her heart, I see no sorrow, her plagues shall come in one day, and she shall be utterly burnt with fire.
A wonderful Security, that 〈…〉 such a season he should minde his Kingdome no more, for at this very time the City was besieged with Enemies. But the ⟨p. 9⟩Caldeans thought with themselves, they had the River Euphrates, and a triple Wall belonging to the City to secure them,1 and also twenty years Provision wherewith they were stored, so that they laughed at Cyrus his Expedition against them: well but, that very night was Belshazzar the King of the Caldeans slain, and D•rius the Median took the Kingdome. And the like is to be said concerning Mystical Babylon; at that very time when Rome shall say in her heart, I see no sorrow, her plagues shall come in one day, and she shall be utterly burnt with fire.
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