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Things to be looked for. Discourses on the glorious characters, with conjectures on the…Things to be look'd for. Discourses on the glorious characters, with conjectures on the…
Things to be looked for. Discourses on the glorious characters, with conjectures on the speedy approaches of that state, which is reserved for the church of God in the latter days. : Together with an inculcation of several duties, which the undoubted characters and approaches of that state, invite us unto: delivered unto the artillery company of the Massachusetts colony: New England; at their election of officers, for the year 1691. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines from Luke]Things to be look'd for. Discourses on the glorious characters, with conjectures on the speedy approaches of that state, which is reserved for the church of God in the latter dayes. : Together with an inculcation of several duties, which the undoubted characters and approaches of that state, invite us unto: delivered unto the artillery company of the Massachusets colony: New England; at their election of officers, for the year 1691. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines from Luke]
printed by Samuel Green for Nicholas Buttolph, 1691
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It seems by This, that as Judas Maccabeus, after the profanation of the Mosaical Sanctuary, by Aetioch•s for Twelve hundred and Sixty Natural Days, then spent Thirty Days in the Purification of the Temple; and spent Forty five Days more, to prepare all things, for the Dedication of it, thus, after the Strokes that God is now giving to Antichrist, there may go some Years to S••ety and Cleanse the Church of many Schisms, […] Abuses now crept into it. Now, though I despair of seeing any Church in all things answering The Pattern is the […], until those Days of Purification come; yet it is very pleasing […] the Lord Jesus to see us Do what we can, for the Forwarding of that Holy Work; the very Soul of our Lord, is unspeakably pleased with it, when He sees, that it is our desire, and study to ⟨p. 64⟩have our Churches Exactly live they New-Jerusalem whereinto enters […] no• what […] Abominations and Fal••y. Indeed, as when […] Vig•la•ti•s appeared Vigorously against […] Abuses that were Crept into the Church in the beginning of the Fifth Century, no less a man than John undertook the Patronage of those Abuses, and bestowing the Name of D•r•it••tins, with other bad and base Language upon the man that had so faithfully Reproved them; tis possible that some Great and G•od men, may now in like manner […] upon our Endeavours to Correct the Abuses that are got into the Church; but the Day is at hand, when such Reformers will be acknowledged, the only Vigilant Servants of God. Thus, although the World be now in a Midnight of Security, yet is that Cry Raised among you. Behold, the Bridegroom comes, Go ye forth to meet Him! We meet Him. when we Go forth to much of that Reformation, which His Coming will more thoroughly fill the World withal.
It seems by This, that as Judas Maccabius, after the profanation of the Mosaical Sanctuary, by Aetiochs for Twelve hundred and Sixty Natural Dayes, then spent Thirty Dayes in the Purification of the Temple; and spent Forty five Dayes more, to prepare all things, for the Dedication of it, thus, after the Strokes that God is now giving to Antichrist, there may go some Years to Sety and Clense the Church of many Schisms, Abuses now crept into it. Now, though I despair of seeing any Church in all things answering The Pattern is the , until those Dayes of Purification come; yet it is very pleasing the Lord Jesus to see us Do what we can, for the Forwarding of that Holy Work; the very Soul of our Lord, is unspeakably pleased with it, when He sees, that it is our desire, and study to