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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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by Land, they had Soldiers to watch the Palls; by Sea, they intended such Poisons, that if any lay had in unsearchable co••e•s of an Hold, yet they killed them with the Vapour. They have ever since been Tortured in the Hands of Devils Incarnate, who have so treated them, that six years ago, there were Medals made, whereon 'twas bragged, That the French King had already reduced no less than Twenty hundred thousand Calvinists, from ⟨p. 20⟩the Protestant Religion. So horribly has he, who I doubt will one Day be called, Louis le Loup, ravaged upon the Flocks of the Lord Jesus O Tremendous Judgments of Heaven! But, suppose we that these were greater Sinners? Nay, except we Repent, we may all of us likewise Perish.
by Land, they had Souldiers to watch the Palles; by Sea, they intented such Poisons, that if any lay had in unsearchable co••e•s of an Hold, yet they kill'd them with the Vapour. They have ever since been Tortured in the Hands of Devils Incarnate, who have so treated them, that six years ago, there were Medals made, whereon 'twas brag'd, That the French King had already reduced no less than Twenty hundred thousand Calvinists, from ⟨p. 20⟩the Protestant Religion. So horribly has he, who I doubt will one Day be called, Louis le Loup, ravaged upon the Flocks of the Lord Jesus O Tremendous Judgments of Heaven! But, suppose we that these were greater Sinners? Nay, except we Repent, we may all of us likewise Perish.
II. In the mean time, tis our Petition to God, that our Laborious Pastors may Cry aloud, and not spare, but lift up, their Voice like a Trumpet, against those Evils, which will not let our God become our Friend While they do like the Soldiers of G•deon car, the Light of the Gospel (as Paul, speaks) in Earthen Vessels, they also at the same time carry Trumpets to oppose what is Contrary unto God. Qui Claves haben Eccles Ostia Suorum Librum aperiant. The great God hath seen such Evils in our Camp, that He Demands, Who is on my side, against them all? It is to be hoped, that the Sons of Levi, will all appear for Him. Their Name is that of, A Reprover; and the Almighty God says unto them. as unto young Jeremiah, Arise, and Speak unto them all that I Command thee, been's dismayed at their Faces. I know very well, that the Reprover who acquits himself with a good