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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.
And we know, what Advances the Wrath of Heaven has been since making towards those Ruins, which threaten something like the Dissolution of these Plantations. Our Political Fathers in the GENERAL COURT, at the beginning of our late Mortal Tea•, beholding how In•n•ably we •ined away in our Iniqui••, Emitted a Proce••mation, again to advise, us That the Corruption of Manners among us had […] ought the Axe to be now more than ••er laid unto the Root of our ⟨p. 12⟩Tree; and Excite all Ranks of Men unto the doing of their part for the Amendment of our Ways; with a Solemn Admonition unto this whole people, that they every where give Demonstrations of a thorough Repentance, without which (as they expressed it) we have little Reason to hope for any Good success in our Affairs. Our Congregations had this Admonition very faithfully by their several Watchmen set before them; and we did not want our Printed Advertisements thereupon, That as it is related concerning the Sons of El•i, They hearkened not unto the voice of their Father, because the Lord, would […] them; To, if men did now show themselves Refractory […] their Provoking Evils, the issue would be this, They hearkened not unto the voice of their Fathers, because the Lord would make a terrible Slaughter of them. That none of all these Means, have Recovered us out of our Apostasies is Confessed by all sorts of Men; and accordingly the continuing Vengeance of Heaven upon us, has been written in dismal and bloody Characters.
And we know, what Advances the Wrath of Heaven has been since making towards those Ruines, which threaten something like the Dissolution of these Plantations. Our Political Fathers in the GENERAL COURT, at the beginning of our late Mortal Tea•, beholding how In•n•ably we •ined away in our Iniqui••, Emitted a Procemation, again to advise, us That the Corruption of Manners among us had ought the Ax to be now more than er laid unto the Root of our