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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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I pray, go find if you can, any thing but the Church of Rome that can afford you these Characters!—Et Eris mibi magnns […] Apoilo. No, Tis from some Extraordinary Blindness, if men do not now see, the Church of Rome to be that Babylon, whereof tis the call of God, in Rev. 18 4. Come out of her, my People, that ye be not partakers of her Sins, and that ye Receive not of her Plagues. Tis a thing whereof some Considerable pers•ts for many Ages, have been aware. Among others, a whole […] of Gallic Bishops, in the year, 991. Cried […] the Pope, He is the Antichrist who sits is the Temple of God. And it is impossible without Admiration to read the Admirable Oration made by the Bishop of Satisburgh, […] the States of the Empire, in the year 1•40, in which he calls. ⟨p. 67⟩The Popes, The Priests of Babylon; and fl•ds at Rome, the Antichrist, which had the Ten Horns, or Kings of Europe under him. It would not […] move sad than strange, if we should then be […] loss to find the Seat of Antichrist in our Days. Wherefore, Believe me, Tis not possible for a man to Do a more Dangerous Thing, than to Continue in the Romish Communion, at such a Time as this! As for those Kingdoms, wherein Popery ha's been Abolished, if any man, be he High or Low, Rich or Poor, shall go to bring the people under that Grand Cheat again, I will Read you the Fa•e of that man; The Curse of Joshua never fell so hand upon the Rebuilder of Demolished Jericho, as the Curse of Jesus will fall upon the Authors of this Accursed Enterprise; neither shall they prosper in it, any better than the Jews, who at the Invitation of the Apostate Ju•••, going to Re-edify their Temple, God sent a terrible Earth-quake that ever-threw all they had already done, and by Fire from Heaven burned up the Tools, and some of those that used them. But as for those Kingdoms, which yet Continue Impenitent and Incurable in their Popery, One may tremble to foresee the Vengeance Impending over them. There is a Conflagration intended for our World, of which the frequent Mischiefs by Fire in our days may be our Monitors. This Conflagration [Consider Dan. 7. 11, 12