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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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But there are some that have a more peculiar opportunity to prosecute that Reformation, which would be, The Lengthening out of our Tranquillity. And I would pray that the Freedom of my Address may not be m•sn e•p•eted. Yea, I'll consent, Inveniar sane super•us, made […] silentis non arguar. Our very Enemies can twit us with our Backsliding's: as particularly, a scandalous, and a slanderous Libeller t'other day, in the midst of many Printed Falsehoods, could Admonish us too truly of the Sins which attended our Husking Times, as what might make us fear that we should have the Blast quickly come upon our Indian, which has been on our other Grain. Had we the pious prudence of Austins Mother, in us, even such Insinuations in a way of Spite, given to us, ⟨p. 15⟩would Put us upon correcting of our thus Notorious and Offensive Lewdnesses. How much more ought modest Representations in a way of Love made unto us, to be received, as, The Smil•ngs of the Righteous! But indeed, they are not Blows; […] they are Balms, which I have now to make a Tender of.
But there are some that have a more peculiar opportunity to prosecute that Reformation, which would be, The Lengthning out of our Tranquillity. And I would pray that the Freedom of my Address may not be m•sn e•p•eted. Yea, I'le consent, Inveniar sane super•us, made 〈…〉 silentis non arguar. Our very Enemies can twit us with our Backsliding's: as particularly, a scandalous, and a slanderous Libeller t'other day, in the midst of many Printed Faliboods, could Admonish us too truly of the Sins which attended our Husking Times, as what might make us fear that we should have the Blast quickly come upon our Indian, which has been on our other Grain. Had we the pious prudence of Austins Mother, in us, even such Insinuations in a way of Spite, given to us, ⟨p. 15⟩