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Heaven's alarm to the world. Or A sermon, wherein is showed, that fearful sights…Heaven's alarm to the world. Or A sermon, wherein is shewed, that fearful sights…
Heaven's alarm to the world. Or A sermon, wherein is showed, that fearful sights and signs in heaven, are the presages of great calamities at hand. Preached at the lecture of Boston in New-England; January, 20. 1680. / By Increase Mather.Heaven's alarm to the world. Or A sermon, wherein is shewed, that fearful sights and signs in heaven, are the presages of great calamities at hand. Preached at the lecture of Boston in New-England; January, 20. 1680. / By Increase Mather.
printed for Samuel Sewall. And are to be sold by Joseph Browning, 1682
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.
Thus have we seen what Judgements and Calamities, Fearful Sights in heaven are commonly the Presages of. As for that SIGN in heaven, now appearing, (which hath occasioned me to speak this Word at this time) what Calamities may be portended thereby, which of the Judgements mentioned, or whether all of them be not thereby presaged, I shall not say; but leave it unto God and Time to discover. Only in general, we have cause to fear, that sweeping Judgements are thereby signified; that the Lord is ⟨p. 24⟩coming down from Heaven with a long Besom of Destruction, which shall sweep away a world of Sinners before it.
Thus have we seen what Judgements and Calamityes, Fearful Sights in heaven are commonly the Presages of. As for that SIGN in heaven, now appearing, (which hath occasioned me to speak this Word at this time) what Calamityes may be portended thereby, which of the Judgements mentioned, or whether all of them be not thereby presaged, I shall not say; but leave it unto God and Time to discover. Only in general, we have cause to fear, that sweeping Judgements are thereby signified; that the Lord is ⟨p. 24⟩coming down from Heaven vvith a long Beesom of Destruction, which shall sweep away a world of Sinners before it.
I conclude with a word of Application: Nor would I speak any thing, but the words of Truth and soberness, as becometh a Messenger of Christ to do, when speaking in His Name.
I conclude with a word of Application: Nor would I speak any thing, but the words of Truth and soberness, as becometh a Messenger of Christ to doe, when speaking in His Name.