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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 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-Unclea•nes•, a ⟨p. 32⟩Dishonesty of the Heart, and a Falshood 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 reallity, an Heart-Sin it reached by every one of the Commandments.
But what then? W•y, The Tenth Commandment, Supposes not a New Object as the Five Preceding do; but it forbid• a New Act of the Soul, in relation unto the Things, which the former Commandments forbid us, to Sin upon. In shor• This Commandment supposes a man to be in the Enjoyment of those Five Things His PLACE, his LIFE, his BED, his ESTATE, and his ESTEEM, among hi Neighbours; and now the Commandment forbids all Inordinate Mttons of the Soul towards an Alteration of our Condition in the World. A man may Lawfully seek to Change his Condition, where that which God allows him to reckon, The Good Order of his Concerns, is impaired or defective Yea, there are things which may be Coveted, be Earnestly Coveted But when […] man is by the Providence of God, brought into a Condition which he do's not […]