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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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III. And our Honourable Rulers will doubtless lend their Helping Hand; for the Redressing of every Evil, that hurts Humane Society, whereof by the Constitution of God, They are the Officers. There is not so much as a Conservation of the Peace, where those •ces which disturb it, are not Chastised. We may Lift up our Voice like a Trumpet, but the Strong holds of Sin, are Stronger than those of Jericho: there must be Swords as well as Trumpets, to demolish them; and we need not be told, of whom it is said, He beareth not the Sword in […]. There are 'tis true some Spirit is […] sins, which are not, Iniquities to be Punished be the Judge; but when there is Disorderly Living, he is then to be, A Terror unto Evil […]. Indeed Every time the Sword of […] Justice is thrust under the Fifth R•b of our […], there is as it were, ⟨p. 24⟩with a Blessed Magic, a wound given unto all those Ill Persons, that seek to Trouble us. Yea, the whole Congregation fares the better, for every Phinehas, that Legally but Zealous••, animadverts upon the Baseness committed in his Neighbourhood The Good Lord then bless the World more and more, with such Vicegerents of Himself, as our Lord Jesus will shortly, Empower with his Commissions, when, His Kingdom comes; and when the Mountains will bring peace to the people, and the Little Hills by Righteousness. Having breathed out these Wishes, of a Soul, which trembles to think, what may be the Issue of our Delays to make Thorough Work of Returning unto the God that Smites us; the conclusion that would best finish all, is that, Be strong, O Z• rubba•el, Be strong, O Joshua, Be strong, all […] People of the Land, saith the Lord.
III. And our Honourable Rulers will doubtless lend their Helping Hand; for the Redressing of every Evil, that hurts Humane Society, whereof by the Constitution of God, They are the Officers. There is not so much as a Conservation of the Peace, where those •ces which disturb it, are not Chastised. We may Lift up our Voice like a Trumpet, but the Strong holds of Sin, are Stronger than those of Jericho: there must be Swords as well as Trumpets, to demolish them; and we need not be told, of whom it is said, He beareth not the Sword in . There are 'tis true some Spirit is sins, which are not, Inquities to be Punished be the Judge; but when there is Disorderly Living, he is then to be, A Terror unto Evil . Indeed Every time the Sword of Justice is thrust under the Fifth Rb of our , there is as it were,