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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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PREFACE
Twas on the Twenty Fourth of December 1691 that the following Sermon was delivered, at the Boston Lecture, unto a very great Audience, with whom, the Merciful God gave it some Acceptance. The Four Ministers which carried on that Ancient and Famous Lecture, had for many Months of late, been setting themselves, to Fight in their Courses, against the more Common M Miscarriages, now found among this Professing People of God; And it fell unto me, who am the Last and Least of them that here do the Service of our Saviour, to conclude those Testimonies, by some just Animadversions upon that Malignant Sin of DISCONTENT. That I might give Content unto many of the Heaters, that have asked a Copy of the Discourse, I have been Content that it should now see the Light; being sensible, that it is not easy for me to Pi•ch upon any Subject of more General Concernment for my Neighbourhood. And I have taken this Occasion, to Recapitulate our other Offences against the Divine Commandments whereof we then is our Public Prayers, made Confession before the Lord our God; and now Address Earth, as we then did Heaven, for the Reformation of our Provoking Evils. Tis by such Ess yes to Witness for God, that some of His Poor Servants now, Whenever or However, they may be taken from their Work, will through the Blessed JESUS, be able to lay down their Heads with Joy.
TWas on the Twenty Fourth of December 1691 that the following Sermon was delivered, at the Boston Lecture, unto a very great Audience, with whom, the Merciful God gave it some Acceptance. The Four Ministers which carried on that Ancient and Famous Lecture, had for many Monthes of late, been setting themselves, to Fight in their Courses, against the more Common M Miscarriages, now found among this Professing People of God; And it fell unto me, who am the Last and Least of them that here do the Service of our Saviour, to conclude those Testimonies, by some just Animadversions upon that Malignant Sin of DISCONTENT. That I might give Content unto many of the Heaters, that have asked a Copy of the Discourse, I have been Content that it should now see the Light; being sensible, that it is not easy for me to Pich upon any Subject of more General Concernment for my Neighbourhood. And I have taken this Occasion, to Recapitulate our other Offences against the Divine Commandments whereof we then is our Publick Prayers, made Confession before the Lord our God; and now Address Earth, as we then did Heaven, for the Reformation of our Provoking Evils. Tis by such Ess yes to Witness for God, that some of His Poor Servants now, Whenever or However, they may be taken from their Work, will through the Blessed JESUS, be able to lay down their Heads with Joy.