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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 Last Proposal.
Finally, Venture to speak for t•e People of God Let us make Esthers Venture in our Prayer•; and resolve, as in Isa 62 1 For Zions sake, I will not hold my peace. Indeed we run something of a Venture in it, if our p•ayers become so Frequent▪ and so Fervent, as t•at the Omnipotent God should be put upon saying, Let me Alone! For then, if God have determined the Consuming of this place, He will first kill them that He shall find so standing in the Gap. But O tha• I may Die standing there! perhaps, it may Cost some o• us our Lives, tha• God may, Ma•• a way for his Anger; but it will co•t us our S•uls, i• b• o•r Negligence, we Leav• a wa• for that Anger. Come th•n, […] •elves to ze• love […] tha• ne•er yet […] Hearty Prayer, for […] sa•e; now Begin. […] ad a Dumb Son, who tho' he never soke […] yet […] a man go to kill his Father, is […] an shk, O don't kill my