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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.
But what is the Duty t•en incumbent upon ⟨p. 9⟩our selves ▪ You have heard it in the Text ▪ and you shall again hear it, in our Doctrine, thereupon; which is briefly This.
That every Christian should Readily and Cheerfully Venture his All to to serve the people of God, when a Time of Distress and Danger calleth for it.
That every Christian should Readily and Chearfully Uenture his All to to serve the people of God, when a Time of Distress and Danger calleth for it.
It had been both presumptuous and Injurious to have Exhorted Es•ther unto doing so, if it had not been a Duty altogether indispensable. The Blessed God, for most wise and great Ends, permits Times of Distress and Danger to come upon His people. That His Attributes may be Magnified, and that both His and Their Adversaries may be prepared for the Vengeance, which belongs unto them, Therefore 'tis that the most High brings His People sometimes into most amazing Exigencies; 'tis for these causes, that they not rarely fall into such Times of Distress and Danger, that like them in the Days of Esther, they Lie mourning and weeping and wailing in Sackcloth and Ashes, before the Lord; and they see themselves no where but upon the prodigious ⟨p. 10⟩precipices of Ruins hardly to b• avoided.