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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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The First sin Committed by our Father was, Concupiscence; & that Sin ha's been the• Mother of all our other Misbehaviours. What was First Committed, is Last Forbidden; & it gives us, a Demonstration, that none of us, can fully keep the Law of our ⟨p. 31⟩God▪ In all the Affirmative Precepts of the Law, there is that Rule interwoven, With all thy Hearts, and all thy Soul, and all thy Strength. And all the Negative Precepts are under the Influence of that Rule, Not so much as Covering. Blind and Proud Liars are these men which do not own themselves full of Sin against a Law, thus Exceeding Broad!
The First sin Committed by our Father was, Conc•pisce•ce; & that Sin ha's been the• Mother of all our other Misbehaviours. What was First Committed, is Last Forbidden; & it gives us, a Demonstration, that none of us, can fully keep the Law of our ⟨p. 31⟩God▪ In all the Affirmative Precepts of the Law, there is that Rule interwoven, With all thy Hearts, and all thy Soul, and all thy Strength. And all the Negative Precepts are under the Influence of that Rule, Not so much as Covering. Blind and Proud Lyars are these men which do not own themselves full of Sin against a Law, thus Exceeding Broad!
It has been a matter of much Enquiry,
What is that CONCUPISCENCE, which the Tenth Commandment, gives us the Prohibition of?