N00162:56
An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of…
An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of God in his late and present dispensations as ever they desire to escape another judgement, seven times greater that any thing which as yet hath been. / By Increase Mather; teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1676
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.
and also of the distressed state of the rest of the Colonies confederate with our selves, and of the Churches of Christ in other parts of the Christian World, in this day […] Rebukes, and Blasphe••, and fearing the sad issue thereof, […] the Lord help us with our […] heart, and not feignedly, to turn unto himself) Do Appoint and […] seventh day of the next Month, to be a Day of public Humiliation, […] Fasting and Prayer, throughout this whole Colony; that we may set our selves sincerely to seek the Lord, rending our hearts, and not our garments before him, and pursue the same with a thorough Reformation of what ever hath been or is an image of jealousy before the Lord to offend the eyes of his Glory; if so be, the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, that we perish not: we do therefore require all the Inhabitants of this Jurisdiction to forbear service labour upon that day, and that they apply themselves respectively to observe the same, as is appointed. By the Council, Edward Ramson Secr't.
and also of the distressed state of the rest of the Colonies consederate with our selves, and of the Churches of Chri•t in other parts of the Christian World, in this day 〈…〉 Rebukes, and Blasphe••, and fearing the sad issue thereof, 〈…〉 the Lord help us with our 〈…〉 heart, and not feignedly, to turn unto himself) Do Appoint and 〈…〉 seventh day of the next Month, to be a Day of publick Humiliation, 〈…〉 Fasting and Prayer, throughout this whole Colony; that we may set our selves sincerely to seek the Lord, rending our hearts, and not our garments before him, and pursue the same with a thorough Reformation of what ever hath been or is an image of jealousie before the Lord to offend the eyes of his Glory; if so be, the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, that we perish not: we do therefore require all the Inhabitants of this Jurisdiction to forbear service labour upon that day, and that they apply themselves respectively to observe the same, as is appointed. By the Council, Edward Ramson Secr't.