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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.
But the, Inward Consolations of the […], in our Souls, will even at the present abundantly Compensate, all our Suffering for our Faithfulness; besides the Recompenses that we shall have at, The […] of the Just. It is not Improbable, that Paul, Rapture into the Third Heaven, was at the very time when the People had been sto•••g of him. Not shall we go without a particular […] of God about us, in a•• the Perils, to which we do this way become Obnoxious. I have known the Devil in a possessed Person […] Cruel Strokes, and Kicks against a Messenger of God, then Praying in the Room; and yet the Hand or F•o• of the Person Strangely Recoil, when within perhaps an Inch of him, as if Rebounding against a Wall. Thus ha's our God promised us, I have made thee a Defenced […], an Iron ⟨p. 23⟩Pillar, and a Brazen Wall. The Angles will defend us, as their Pe•••-Servants, & we shall dwell under Angelical Influences every day, if we undauntedly set our selves to bear down all the Sins, that keep up the Kingdom of the Devils.
But the, Inward Conso•ations of the 〈…〉, in our Souls, will even at the present abundantly Compensate, all our Suffering for our Faithfulness; besides the Recompences that we shall have at, The 〈…〉 of the Just. It is not Impr•b•ble, that Paul, Rapture into the Third Heaven, was at the very time when the People had been sto•••g of him. Not shall we go without a particular 〈…〉 of God about us, in a•• the Perils, to which we do this way become Obnox•ous. I have known the Divel in a possessed Person 〈…〉 Cruel Strokes, and Kicks against a Messenger of God, then Praying in the Room; and yet the Hand or Fo of the Person Strangely Rcoyl, when within perhaps an Inch of him, as if Rebounding against a Wall. Thus ha's our God promised us, I have made thee a Defenced , an Iron