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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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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 G•otian 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 Pro••ct 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 ⟨p. 66⟩to himself, the Powers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and there withal make Bloody Wars against the […], and overcome them; as his Kingdom is to […] S•••n for •ilthi•oss, it must like-wise be an […] for Cruelty; he must Interdict all Commerce with such as will not pay Homage to him. Antichrist must Raise Paganism out of its Grave, in a Disguise; and he must make a Noise of Innumerable Miracles. to demonstrate what he Teaches; persons given to Lies; Legends, and Fables, must be his Emissaries; and yet they most pretend great Austerity, by Forbidding to Marry, and Commanding to abstain from […]. In a Word, the Mystical Babylon must also drive a mighty Traffic, in the Sale of Spiritual Commodities; by which means, the Court of Antichrist must be Excessively magnificent; and he will Enslave the Children of men to all this, by first Iteriating of them.