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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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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 M•ttons 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 […] ⟨p. 33⟩a Present and an Honest way, for the Emendation of, and the Soul of the man is hereupon boiling and ro•ling, with an Uneasy Disposition; I say then, Sin lieth at the Door. At the Door, did I say• Yea, tis in the House, and in the most Retired Closet of it: This I say, although perhaps the mind of the man have not yet consented, unto any of those Iniquities which Violate N•ne of the Ten 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 M•ttons 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 allowes 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