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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But there is another thing, which even some of those that imagine themselves to have shaken hands with Popery (whatever they may have in the Bellies of them) are too prone unto; and that is, Persecution. When that Neba•badi•••ar, had seen an Image of the Four Monarchies, he made that very Image, I suppose, a St••t, which whosoever did not immediately D••s•, was to be Burned for their Disobedience. The has been ⟨p. 69⟩done by Antichrist, for many Ages; he ha's Erected an Image of the Preceding Monarchies, in his own Supremacy; and they that will not own him for a God, shall be Burned in his Furnace […] Persecution. But Woe to all Popish persecutors, in, The Day of the Lord, that shall Burn like an Oven! And if any have Renounced the Doctrine of Antichrist, yet for them to retain so much of the Spirit of Antichrist, as to Persecute Conscientious Brethren, is little to Consult their own Preservation, in that Fiery Day. It is broadly intimated [in Math. 24. 48,49.] That just before the Coming of our Lord, There shall be Church Officers, that shall molest their Follow-Servants, who are desirous to have the Church Ordered by such Roles only as our Lord left for the Government of it when He went away; and that shall show more favour to a Common Drunkard, than to one, that shall be, A Faithful and wise Servant in the House of God. It is intimated, That some sudden Providence will at last Surprise and U•char•h [or assign a Portion with Unbelievers] those Evil men; and I wish, we may all so take the Intimations, as to forbear all future Persecutions. Let me plainly leave this Warning with you; That if any of you, Venture to Persecute the Conscientious People of God [Yea, though it be no Greater a Cause, than, A Scruple to Swear upon the Gospel, that any of them do Conscientiously Expose themselves upon] You are like to be sound among; The l••est Persecutors; and be it known unto you, That if the the Last Persecutors have the peculiar Unhappiness, to bear those Terrible Revenges, which the Blood-sheds of all the former Ages have been calling […] I say again, and, The Lord God of the