N00427:64
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.
Deduction III.
But how lamentable then is the Condition of Them, that venture their All, against the People of God! Such Fools there are in the World; malicious and prodigious F••ls indeed! Such an One was that Fool-hardy Monarch, the King of Egypt, that would Venture His All, into the very bottom of the Red-sea, rather than leave the people of God unpursued. How many are there, that will venture their very All, for the Disturbing and Oppressing of them, concerning whom the God of Heaven said, Long ago, Touch them n•t; Do them no Harm! But what get they by this Bargain, this Frenzy? It was the Speech of God, in Zech. 12.2. Beh•ld, I will make Jerusalem a Cup of Trembling. ⟨p. 31⟩Truly, Every Drop of Blood, yea; or of Tear Squeezed from the Abused people of God, proves a Cup of Trembling, that is, a Cup of Poison, to the procurers of it; It makes them at Length to Vomit, their very Bowels up. To hurt the people of God, what is it, but, A Pushing hard against a great Stone? it gives Rubs and Wounds and an horrible Death to the Invaders. All the Four Monarchies of the World, have Tumbled into Confusion, for their Enmity, to that People, who are yet to make the Fifth. To seek the Harm of this people, is to make an Impotent Assault and Battery upon the Omnipotent God Himself▪ but, Woe did ever harden himself against God and prosper? Poor, Unworthy, Unthankful New-England, has long had Experience of such Disappointments befalling of its Venture some Enemies. It was noted about the Piccardines of old, that Reforming people of God, If a man be Weary of his Life, let him become an Enemy to the Piccardines. This has been the Fate attending those whom the people of God, (and This people) have been an Eye-sore unto The great God has taken them in hand and made them find the Ris of their very Lives in their Serpentine […]