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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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The Persecutors of this Time, do make themselves Parti•• to all those Wretches, that have the Cry of the Blood under the Altar, going up to God against them; and let them know, That when the Day of the Vengeance of our God, is come [and it comes apace] to Comfort all that mourn, They shall be dealt withal, as having the Guilt of all the that Blood, lying upon their miserable Souls. Now, Consider this, ye Persecutors, left He tear you to Pieces, and there be••ne to Deliver you.
The Persecutors of this Time, do make themselves Parti•• to all those Wretches, that have the Cry of the Blood under the Altar, going up to God against them; and let them know, That when the Day of the Vengeance of our God, is come [and it comes apace] to Comfort all that mourn, They shall be de•lt withal, as having the Guilt of all the that Blood, lying upon their miserable Souls. Now, Consider this, ye Persecutors, left He tear you to Peices, and there be••ne to Deliver you.
VI. But I Consider my self as appearing this Day in my Arms, among you; which Arms, you see, are a few smooth stones In a Scrip with a s••ag; I mean, a few proper and useful Texts, in the Scripture, with a Sermon; and I may not Lay down my Arms, until I have made some Addresses more particularly to the Gentlemen, for whom tis that I now am in this Holy Service.
You, will then give me leave to tell you, That Your Swords and Spears are as yet Repreiv•d from the Change into Plough shares and Pruning books, which they shall one Day be Condemned unto. Indeed, as Joshua could once make Time Stand still, while the people of God were to use their Swords and Spears; if it were in our Power, we would make Time Run on so fast as presently to bring on the Golden Age, wherein Swords and