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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
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And now also if our SPIRITS, are not more Content than ever with such Estates as God has Ordered for us, What a Conviction have we in the Disasters which our Friends to the Northward have newly met withal! We are now perhaps upon all accounts as we would be; but let us then think, not only upon those that are hurried and huddled into Garrisons, where besides the Difficulties necessarily attending such Confinements, they are every Hour Expecting the Doubtful Assaults of an Adversary, from whom, every Act of ⟨p. 87⟩Mercy is a Prodigy: but also let us think upon the miserable Captives now in the Hands of that brutish Adversary; Captives that are every minute Looking when they shall be Roasted Alive, to make a Sport and a Feast, for the most Execrable Cannibals; Captives, that must Endure the most bitter Frost and Cold, without Rags Enough to Cover their Nakedness; Captives, that have scarce a bit of meat allowed them to put into their Mouths, but what a Dog would hardly meddle with; Captives, that must see their nearest Relations butchered before their Eyes, and yet be afraid of Letting those Eyes drop a Tear upon the most Heart breaking Occasions, that can be imagined; Captives, that may not bear a part in any Comfortable Devotions nor be known to have so much as a Bible with them, lest a French Priest should si•ze upon it; Captives, that wear […] one weary Week after another, in the midst of such Wolves as are every moment […] to •ear them […] to p••ces. Pray, […] us resent the Condition of such Captives; and let their Captiv•••, teach •s a Lesson of Contentment with such unsp•••ly […], ⟨p. 88⟩is our Gracious God ha's favoured us withal.
And now also if our SPIRITS, are not more Content than ever with such Estates as God has Ordered for us, What a Conviction have we in the Disasters which our Friends to the Northward have newly met withal! We are now perhaps upon all accounts as we would be; but let us then think, not only upon those that are hurried and huddled into Garrisons, where besides the Difficulties necessarily attending such Confinements, they are every Hour Expecting the Doubtful Assaults of an Adversary, from whom, every Act of