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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A Sacred Exorcism, upon Sinful DISCONTENT. Uttered on December 24.… › II. The Evil of DISCONTENT.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I once knew a Minister whom God made an Instrument of saving a discontented young man, from signing a Covenant with the Wicked One, which he by strange Accident found out, that the young man had already Written with his Blood. Yea, Murder, and the worst, Murder too: even Self-Murder, is that which the Devil! does by discontent often precipitate many wretched madmen into. Ahithophel falling into a pang of Discontent, goes and hangs himself. O it is a most hideous and hazardous Possession which the Devil takes of a discontented man. When Saul was in a discontent, it is noted, An Evil Spirit came upon him. Why, Discontent invites all the Devils within Call, to make a Kende• vouze in the Heart of the disturbed man. Yea, if I were as much a Sadducee, as I ⟨p. 51⟩am, even by matter of Fact, able to confute a Sadducee, I would say, Discontent is it self a Devil, and the very Prince of Devils. But it is enough to say, The Devil has not a greater Engine to work withal.
I once knew a Minister whom God made an Instrument of saving a discontented young man, from signing a Covenant with the Wicked One, which he by strange Accident found out, that the youngman had already Written with his Blood. Yea, Murder, and the worst, Murder too: even Self-Murder, is that which the Devil! does by discontent often precipitate many wretched madmen into. Achitophel falling into a pang of Discontent, goes and hangs himself. O it is a most hideous and hazardous Possession which the Devil takes of a discountented man. When Saul was in a discontent, it is noted, An Evil Spirit came upon him. Why, Discontent invites all the Devils within Call, to make a Kende• vouze in the Heart of the disturbed man. Yea, if I were as much a Sadducce, as I ⟨p. 51⟩am, even by matter of Fact, able to confute a Sadducee, I would say, Discontent is it self a Devil, and the very Prince of Devils. But it is enough to say, The Devil has not a greater Engine to work withal.