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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.
To have done, Among the many Accursed Things […] the midst of us, the […] comprehensive Mischief […] show mine Opinion• ⟨p. 25⟩is our Aversation to, and Violation of, the Covenant of our God. Either people do shamefully forbear to put themselves under the Wings of that Covenant, or are afterwards most woefully forgetful of the […] which that Covenant lays upon them. We do as it were throw by our Errand into the Wilderness; which was to wait upon God, in a true, pure, Evangelical Church-state, for all the sure mercies of his Everlasting Covenant. But, Who does hinder? Why, the False God, which has been too generally bowed unto. Our Trade, our Cash, our Land, have been our Gods, until there has arose Wa• in our Gates. As a poor Indian once in the West-Indies, held out a piece of Gold, saying, This is the Christians God! so might I hold out a Turf of Earth, and say, Here is the God of many a poor New England man! A Be•••bul indeed! a fine […], made of Dung! O how happy, how holy, how reformed should we become, and how true to the Covenant of our God, if this Idol were more cast unto the Moles. Whereas, if our value for the World cause us to let the Church-[…] of Gods Covenant ⟨p. 26⟩fink and fail in the midst of us, we shall certainly be vexed with all Adversity, until at last we perish utterly.
To have done, Among the many Accursed Things 〈…〉 the midst of us, the 〈…〉 comprehensive Mischief 〈…〉 shew mine Opinion• ⟨p. 25⟩is our Aversation to, and Violation of, the Covenant of our God. Either people do shamefully forbear to put themselves under the Wings of that Convenant, or are afterwards most wofully forgetful of the 〈…〉 which that Covenant layes upon them. We do as it were throw by our Errand into the Wilderness; which was to wait upon God, in a true, pure, Evangelical Church-state, for all the sure mercies of his Everlasting Covenant. But, Who does hinder? Why, the False God, which has been too generally bow'd unto. Our Trade, our Cash, our Land, have been our Gods, until there has arose Wa in our Gates. As a poor Indian once in the West-Indies, held out a piece of Gold, saying, This is the Christians God! so might I hold out a Turf of Earth, and say, Here is the God of many a poor NewEngland man! A Bebul indeed! a fine , made of Dung! O how happy, how holy, how reform'd should we become, and how true to the Covenant of our God, if this Idol were more cast unto the Moles. Whereas, if our value for the World cause us to let the Church- of Gods Covenant