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The serviceable man. A discourse made unto the General Court of the Massachusetts colony,…
The serviceable man. A discourse made unto the General Court of the Massachusetts colony, New-England, at the anniversary election 28d. 3m. 1690. / By Cotton Mather Minister of the Gospel. ; [Two lines of Latin quotation]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Joseph Browning, 1690
The Serviceable Man. › The POSITION. › Deduction 1: Deduction I.
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 I.
What will be the Thoughts of our God concerning them that shall Do all they can Against His people here? The man that shall do Service for the people of God, has this wish going to Heaven for him, Remember me, O my God, concerning this. Well, the man that shall do mischief to the people of God, is also to be Remembered; it is said in Neh. 13.29 Remember them, O my God, because ⟨p. 30⟩of what they have done. Believe me, The Almighty God will make those Agents of the Devil know that He'll Remember them! those Tobijahs and Sanballats will not be forgotten.
What will be the Thoughts of our God concerning them that shall Do all they can Against His people here? The man that shall do Service for the people of God, has this wish going to Heaven for him, Remember me, O my God, concerning this. Well, the man that shall do mischief to the people of God, is also to be Remembred; it is said in Neh. 13.29 Remember them, O my God, because ⟨p. 30⟩of what they have done. Believe me, The Almighty God will make those Agents of the Devil know that He'l Remember them! those Tobijahs and Sanballats will not be forgotten.
This people of God, is part of that Israel, whereof it may be said, His Adversaries be round about him. The Enemies of New-England have not been few or small; and it is because we are, A people of God, that we still have such Enemies. We have indeed been a persecuted people, and Wars have been made upon us, for our keeping the Commandments of God, and having the Testimony of Jesus Christ. Into the List of our present Enemies, who would not put those, who t'other Day, let fall their cursed and cruel Intimations, That it was convenient this Territory should be possessed by another people! and those that were so politic as to inform us now and then, That it was not for the Interest of our Superiors that we should Thrive! and those that have had the vanity to publish unto the World in Print, their Proposals, That the Religion of this people made it unsafe to allow them here. And with these, who would not reckon those Pagan and Popish Neighbours, that are making the Inroads of a Bloody War upon us? These are our Declared Enemies! But