N00427:13
The present state of New-England. Considered in a discourse on the necessities and advantages…
The present state of New-England. Considered in a discourse on the necessities and advantages of a public spirit in every man; especially, at such a time as this. Made at the lecture in Boston 20.d. 1.m. 1690. Upon the news of an invasion by bloody Indians and French-men, begun upon us. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two line epigram in Latin]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1690
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.
Esther IV.14. If thou altogether hold thy peace at this time, Thou and thy Fathers House shall be destroyed.
TIS well known, that the late Methods of this weekly and ancient LECTURE, have been, to insist first on the Affairs of a sincere CONVERSION, and then on the Duties of a pious CONVERSATION. Having dispatched the former, we are now entertaining ⟨p. 2⟩you with our ou• Discourses and Directions on the latter. And you must Indulge me this Digression, that the fresh News of our Distress and Danger which within this fou• and twenty Hours arrived unto us, have diverted my Thoughts to That which you may behold this Text pointing at.
I could not altogether hold my peace at this time, without observing, that we have as many Duties as we hav• Objects to be concerned with. But as one of the Objects which we […] have before us, is, The People of God placed in very terrible Distress, and Danger; thus among the Duties then expected from us, none of the least Remarkable and Considerable is, The venturing of our All, in the service of that holy People. Such was the Object, and such the Duty which our Text refers unto. The people of God, had their All now just going to be gone, and a great person is here called upon to venture All, for the service of this People that were thus Expiring.
I could not altogether hold my peace at this time, without observing, that we have as many Duties as we hav• Objects to be concern•d with. But as one of the Objects which we have before us, is, The People of God placed in very terrible Distress, and Danger; thus among the Duties then expected from us, none of the least Remarkable and Considerable is, The venturing of our All, in the service of that holy People. Such was the Object, and such the Duty which our Text refers unto. The people of God, had their All now just going to be gone, and a great person is here called upon to venture All, for the service of this People that were thus Expiring.