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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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V. And let us Beware of being found among those that most horribly perish, in the […], that are to precede the Peaceable Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a People are to Enter into Rest, usually some Consuming Judgments do first carry away an Untowardly, and Ungracious Generation, like the Is•a•lites whom the matter of B••l Poor proved fatal unto. But never was there such a Prodigious Wast of M•n, as there will be, when God is just Leading a Chosen Generation, into the Rest of His Kingdom in the Latter Days. Now there are especially Two Things, that lay men open to the most ⟨p. 65⟩formidable Plagues of our Days; which […] are, Popery and Persecution.
V. And let us Beware of being found among those that most horribly perish, in the 〈…〉, that are to precede the Peaceable Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a People are to Enter into Rest, usually some Consuming Judgments do first carry away an Untowardly, and Ungracious Generation, like the Is•a•lites whom the matter of B••l P•or prov'd fatal unto. But never was there such a Prodigious Wast of M•n, as there will be, when God is just Leading a Chosen Generation, into the Rest of His Kingdom in the Latter Dayes. Now there are especially Two Things, that lay men open to the most ⟨p. 65⟩formidable Plagues of our Dayes; which 〈…〉 are, Popery and Persecution.
Where to find Antichrist, if not in Popery can tell? The Day Light in now a little […] brood for us, to take the Sorry Puppet of the Gotian Antichrist, for, you Man of Sin. It is Enough, to note, That Antichrist must have an Empire, and yet an Empire founded in the […], of a False Religion; it must here withal be an Empire obtained more by Craft than Force; but an Empire, whose Chief City must be seared on Seven Mountains and the Great City which in the Days of the Apostle John, ruled over the Kingdoms of the Earth; it must be a Continuation of the Fourth Monarchy, and a Revival of it, when it had Received a Deadly […]; but it must be only an Image of the Roman Empire, a Spiritual Sort of a Thing, which ha's no Arms, but the Superstition of is own […] to maintain it. Antichrist must have a Prophet, or a man that pretends himself Infallible, to pronounces Oracles upon all Occasions; and a Corruption of Religion, especially by a Doctrine of Demons of Inferior Mediators: a Worship of […] of Proct is, and Guardians, is the Thing that Chiefly Signalizes him; yet this Idolatry, being led an Adultery, must be Committed by a Church of Christians, that once was the Spouse, of the Lord Jesus Christ; it must be in the Temple of God, tichirst must have […] for the Supporters of his Throne; among which there must be […] old Kingdoms in his Neighbour-hood, more peculiarly Seized into his hands; and at the same time, he must utter very […] his own power and greatness; he must ascribe