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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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I have been well informed, That very lately, a very poor Woman Riding from this Town to her own, had her Horse taken with such an Obstinacy in the Street, that he would not Stir, upon any of the Provocations that could be given him. While many Violences were ineffectually used upon the Refractory Beast, a Gentlewoman, before whose Door the woman was thus Incommoded, Courteously invited her to come in, though she were wholly a Stranger to her. Several Discourses past, in which, the Poverty of this Woman at length came to be discovered; and the Charitable Gentlewoman immediately gave […] a Liberal supply for her Distressed and Indigent Family, in the Ensuing Win••er; after which the Horse would go without a Spur. Behold, the Hand of God ⟨p. 65⟩in an Accident of the Journey! I can also inform you, That a Minister on Foot walking Two or Three Miles out of Town, a very violent Shower of Rain compelled him to go in unto an House upon the Road: There, because he would lose no Time, he treated the people of the Family with Occasional Discourses upon the Things of their Eternal Peace. And God thereby shot those Arrows into the hearts of some who were present, that they could not pluck 'em out, without their going Home unto the Lord. Behold, the Hand of God in an Accident of the Weather too! I say then, Let Gods Co•curse with all Second Causes, be the first cause of our Content, in all they do or bring unto us.
I have been well informed, That very lately, a very poor Woman Riding from this Town to her own, had her Horse taken with such an Obstinacy in the Street, that he would not Stir, upon any of the Provocations that could be given him. While many Violences were ineffectually used upon the Refractory Beast, a Gentlewoman, before whose Door the woman was thus Incommoded, Courteously invited her to come in, though she were wholly a Stranger to her. Several Discourses past, in which, the Poverty of this Woman at length came to be discovered; and the Charitable Gentlewoman immediately gave 〈…〉 a Liberal supply for her Distressed and Indigent Family, in the Ensuing Win••er; after which the Horse would go without a Spur. Behold, the Hand of God ⟨p. 65⟩