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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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Surely, here are Thoughts enough, to lay our Discontents under such Reprimands, that they must for shame now be Hushed for ever.
Surely, here are Thoughts enough, to lay our Discontents under such Reprimands, that they must for shame now be Husht for ever.
2. But now, there are Needful CRACE•, to be the further Ingredients of that […] which is to be used with us. It we had much of Heaven in our ⟨p. 76⟩Hearts, we should be contented, although we have Little of Earth in our Hands. Discontent is a Kind of a Snake; let us take High Flights of Grace, and that Snake will not be able to fasten upon as. One of the Ancients, has well said, Nil sentit Crus in Nervo, cum Animus •st in Cello. Were we very Spiritually Minded, and were we continually acting of Grace upon God, in a life of most Intimate Fellowship with Him; We should be after a sort Insensible, of the Things which do now so Exceedingly Discontent us. Particularly; There are especially Three Graces to be now Recommended unto us all.
2. But now, there are Needful CRACE•, to be the further Ingredients of that 〈…〉 which is to be used with us. It we had much of Heaven in our ⟨p. 76⟩Hearts, we should be contented, although we have Little of Earth in our Hands. Discontent is a Kind of a Snake; let us take High Flights of Grace, and that Snake will not be able to fasten upon as. One of the Ancients, has well said, Nil sentit Crus in Nervo, cum Animus •st in Celo. Were we very Spiritually Minded, and were we continually acting of Grace upon God, in a life of most Intimate Fellowship with Him; We should be after a sort Insensible, of the Things which do now so Exceedingly Discontent us. Particularly; There are especially Three Graces to be now Recommended unto us all.