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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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3. Fervent PRAYERS may be propounded as the Last Ingredients of that Antidote, which we are to be advised unto. Prayer, Tis the Heart-ease of Discontented ones Hannah found it so; when a Fit of Discontent was-upon her; we are told, She •cured out her Soul to the Lord, and so was no more fad. I now say, Go and do likewise. In there any Grievance which you are Discontented at? Then, Go to •the Lord; This will wonderfully Unload your Souls. As Luther called Prayer The Leech of his Care; thus you may find it will suck all your Discontents away.
3. Fervent PRAYERS may be propounded as the Last Ingredients of that Antidote, which we are to be advis'd unto. Prayer, Tis the Heart-ease of Discontented ones Hannah found it so; when a Fit of Discontent was-upon her; we are told, She •cured out her Soul to the Lord, and so was no more fad. I now say, Go and do likewise. In there any Grievance which you are Discontented at? Then, Go to •the Lord; This will wonderfully Unload your Souls. As Luther call'd Prayer The Leeche of his Care; thus you may find it will suck all your Discontents away.
Be much in Prayer. The Hurricanes of Discontents are not in that Mount, whither Prayer will carry you: But pray particularly for, A contented mind. It is a Ri•co of matchless Wisdom; now, If any ⟨p. 81⟩man lack this Wisdom, let him ask it of God. When Paul had said, I have Learned the Mystery of Contentment; left any should mistake him, as if he had spoken like a Self taught man, he subjoins, in