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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.
The first Proposal.
Let us be One and All, that we may the more cheerfully and Readily Venture our All. Alas, For the Divisions of New-England, we have great Searchings of Heart ▪
Let us be One and All, that we may the more chearfully and Readily Venture our All. Alas, For the Divisions of New-England, we have great Searchings of Heart ▪
The Great Austin would sometimes address […] Hearers in such pathetical Terms as those, per tr•mendum Dei Judicium vos Adjure' Thus would I say; and tho' I have no Commission from them for it, yet I would speak it in the Name of all the Sensible persons in the Land; O our Brethren, We Adjure you by the Tremendous Judgments of God, that you immediately Abate and Compose all your Differences. Every Globule of the Blood shed by the French among the Contentious Albanians t'other day, makes a loud cry unto us; and methinks, I hear that cry like the Groans of Deadly wounded Men, passing over the Woods unto us, O do not quarrel any m•re; but unite immediately against your more united Enemies. May this people become, Like a Bundle of Arrows bound a little too fast and close, for the strongest Arm to break us; and may our God say of New-England, as in