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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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Introduction: AN Humble and Faithful TESTIMONY For God, unto the Children of my People.
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Hence 'tis, that our own and our Neighbours Estate ha's not been Honestly dealt withal. We have been Sluggards is our Callings; the Poor have not had our Liberal Alms; We have not Paid our Debts. We have wrongfully taken or with held, what is not our own. When we should not have spent, we have been to Prodigal. when we should have spent, we have been too Niggardly. By Fraud we have Cheated, or by Force we have Oppressed, when we have had an Advantage in our Hands; and measured Right only by our Might; not have we made Restitution of what we have gotten by Dishonesty.
Hence 'tis, that our own and our Neighbours Estate ha's not been Honestly dealt withal. We have been Sluggards is our Callings; the Poor have not had our Liberal Alms; We have not Pay'd our Debts. We have wrongfully taken or with held, what is not our own. When we should not have spent, we have been to Prodigal. when we should have spent, we have been too Niggardly. By Fraud we have Cheated, or by Force we have Opprest, when we have had an Advantage in our Hands; and measured Right only by our Might; not have we made Restitution of what we have gotten by Dishonesty.
Hence 'tis, that our own and our Neighbours Credit has not been kept inviolate. We have Suppressed or fore-born the Truth; and spoken Contrary thereunto. We have had Sinister Suspicions one of another, and either Made, or Spread, or too ⟨p. 8⟩Easily Received False Reports. Tale-bearing ha's been Cherished; & Innocence ha's not been Vigorously Vindicated: No, we have been, Full of Lies!
Hence 'tis, that our own and our Neighbours Credit has not been kept inviolate. We have Suppress'd or fore-born the Truth; and spoken Contrary thereunto. We have had Sinister Suspi•ions one of another, and either Made, or Spread, or too ⟨p. 8⟩Easily Received False Reports. Tale-bearing ha's been Cherished; & Innocence ha's not been Vigorously Vindicated: No, we have been, Full of Lies!