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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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IT was the […] and profane Error too much of the Ancient […], That […] Conformity to the Law of […] fulfilling of that Holy Law: An Error about […] Confuted by our Blessed […], when […] to ••rpound in a […], the same […] which was by […] […] […] Received. Our ⟨p. 30⟩Great Apostle Paul, was once a Pharisee; and he seems to have been Tainted, as not only the Roman Catholics, but even all Unregenerates at this Day, too much are, with that Opinion, until the TENTH Commandment of the Law Convinced him; says he; in Rom. 7. 7,8. I had not known Lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not Covet. From This Commandment, an Inference may be made Concerning all the rest; and so it is with an Artifice of Wonderful and Infinite Wisdom here placed in the Close of all: As if the Lord had said, Let none of you imagine, Your Hearts to be free from the Cogn zance of the Lam•s which I have newly given you; & therefore to convince you that my other lam• do reach as far as the Hearts of you all, behold, I now Limit you with one Commandment, which you may Evidently see, cannot be kept or broke without the Heart.
IT was the 〈…〉 and profane Errour too much of the Ancient 〈…〉, That 〈…〉 C••formity to the Law of 〈…〉 fulfilling of that Holy Law: An Errour about 〈…〉 Confuted by our Blessed 〈…〉, when 〈…〉 to ••rpound in a 〈…〉, the same 〈…〉 which was by 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 Received. Our ⟨p. 30⟩