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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.
There were Especially Two Punishments, which the Wrath of God inflected ⟨p. 53⟩upon His Discontented People in the Wilderness of Old; and I wish my own Discontented Country would Think upon it. The Discontented People, were Punished with, A DELAY of mercy; they hoped that within One half year, they should have had a Comfortable Settlement of their Affairs; and that they should quickly have had a Rest in their own Land under an holy and an happy Magistracy; but for their Discontent they were kept for many years together under very great Unsettlements. The Discontented People, were also Punished, with, FIERY SERPENTS, Let loose upon them; there were horrid Scorpions that were sent among them; those Malignant Presters whose •ayls had a most Incurable but a most curciating Poison in them, very cruelly Stung them for their Discontent. I pray, Let him that ha's Ears to hear, Hear!
There were Especially Two Punishments, which the Wrath of God inflected ⟨p. 53⟩upon His Discontented People in the Wilderness of Old; and I wish my own Discontented Country would Think upon it. The Discontented People, were Punished with, A DELAY of mercy; they hoped that within One half year, they should have had a Comfortable Settlement of their Affayrs; and that they should quickly have had a Rest in their own Land under an holy and an happy Magistracy; but for their Discontent they were kept for many years together under very great Unsettlements. The Discontented People, were also Punished, with, FIERY SERPENTS, Let loose upon them; there were horrid Scorpions that were sent among them; those Malignant Presters whose •ayls had a most Incur•eable but a most curciating Poison in them, very cruelly Stung them for their Discontent. I pray, Let him that ha's Ears to hear, Hear!
Fourthly. Discontent is the most Unreasonable piece of Madness, the maddest piece of Unreasonableness in the World. It is said of Discontented persons, in