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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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We may truly Conceive, That it is not merely Original Sin; which by this Commandment becomes Exceeding Sinful: No, the Lust here forbidden, is the I fact, and indeed the First-born of that Sin; 'tis said in Rom. 7. 8. Sin wrought in me, all manner of Concupiscence. And in truth, Original Sin is a Transgression against every Commandment of God.
We may truly Conceive, That it is not meerly Original Sin; which by this Commandment becomes Exceeding Sinful: No, the Lust here forbidden, is the I ff•ct, and indeed the First-born of that Sin; 'tis said in Rom. 7. 8. Sin wrought in me, all mannar of Concupiscence. And in truth, Original Sin is a Transgression against every Commandment of God.
We may also justly Conceive, That it is not barely the Heart-Sin accompanying all our other Sins in the sight of God, which this Commandment affronts with a Flami••• Sword. There is an Heart-Bride, an Heart-Murder, an Heart-Unclea•nes•, a ⟨p. 32⟩Dishonesty of the Heart, and a Falsehood in the Heart, which is forbidden, when that of the Life is Countermanded. Says our Lord, in Prov. 23. 26. My Son give me thy Heart. And in reality, an Heart-Sin it reached by every one of the Commandments.
We may also justly Conceive, That it is not barely the Heart-Sin accompanying all our other Sins in the sight of God, which this Commandment affro•ts with a Flami••• Sword. There is an Heart-Bride, an Heart-Murder, an Heart-Uncleanes, a