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Fair weather. Or Considerations to dispel the clouds, & allay the storms, of discontent
Fair weather. Or Considerations to dispel the clouds, & allay the storms, of discontent: in a discourse which with an entertaining variety, both of argument and history, lays open, the nature and evil of that pernicious vice, and offers diverse antidotes against it; / by Cotton Mather. ; Whereto there is prefixed a catalogue of sins against all the commandments, whereof all that would make thorough work of repentance, especially at this day when the God of heaven so loudly calls for it, should make their serious and sensible confessions before the Lord; with an humble and fervent address unto this whole people, there-about.Fair weather. Or Considerations to dispel the clouds, & allay the storms, of discontent: in a discourse which with an entertaining variety, both of argument and history, layes open, the nature and evil of that pernicious vice, and offers diverse antidotes against it; / by Cotton Mather. ; Whereto there is prefixed a catalogue of sins against all the commandments, whereof all that would make thorough work of repentance, especially at this day when the God of heaven so loudly calls for it, should make their serious and sensible confessions before the Lord; with an humble and fervent address unto this whole people, there-about.
Boston: printed by Bartholomew Green for Benjamin Harris, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Introduction: AN Humble and Faithful TESTIMONY For God, unto the Children of my People.
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.
AN Humble and Faithful TESTIMONY For God, unto the Children of my People.
Inasmuch as the Miscarriage of our First Parents, while they represented whole Mankind in the Covenant of God, is by a Divine Ordination and Imputation most equally laid upon us all, it is but Righteous with God that the Children of such Parents, in their becoming so, be left without the Righteousness, with which His Image, now defaced by Theirs, would else have made them glorious; and the Absence of that Image, does as Reasonably, as Necessarily, infer the Presence of a Nature in us […] with a Depraved Prejudice against what is, Holy and Just, and Good.
INasmuch as the Miscarriage of our First Parents, while they represented whole Mankind in the Covenant of God, is by a Divine Ordination and Imputation most equally laid upon us all, it is but Righteous with God that the Children of such Parents, in their becoming so, be left without the Righteousness, with which His Image, now defaced by Theirs, would else have made them glorious; and the Absence of that Image, does as Reasonably, as Necessarily, infer the Presence of a Nature in us 〈…〉 with a Depraved Prejudice against what is, Holy and Just, and Good.
Such a Corrupt Fountain will have Bitter, Woeful, Deadly Streams; and w• may see [Lord, open our eyes!] a doleful prospect of them in our Hearts and our Ways.
Such a Corrupt Fountain will have Bitter, Woful, Deadly Streams; and w• may see [Lord, open our eyes!] a doleful prospect of them in our Hearts and our Wayes.