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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Good NEWS in Bad TIMES. › Application. › Consideration 1: The First Consideration.
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.
The First Consideration.
There is like to be much Occasion yet for men to L•ar• War; Our Swords and our Spears are yet like to have a Sufficient Employment for them. Our Lord mentions it among the Signs of His Coming, in Math. 24. 6. Ye shall hear of Wars and K••ours of Wars. Tis a thing that seems to have at this Day, a Terrible and Amazing Fulfilment in the World; what Garret can you read that ha's not Armies, and Campaigns, and Sieges filling bo•h Pages of it? I Remember, Lactantius who Lived some Hundreds more than a Thousand years ago, ha's a Notion, That a little before the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus come, there shall a Great Sword fall from Heaven to Earth; to Signify that the Lord of the C••le•ial Armies is at hand. And who do's not with Ho••our Behold the Accomplishment of that intimation? The Almighty God ha's […] down […] Bloody Sword into the ⟨p. 73⟩World which the Nations every where are cruelly Butchering one another with. The Sword is every where making prodigious Alterations […] Devastations; that Monstrous Eater is even ••• ing sat upon the Carcasses of our Fellow-Sinners throughout the Universe; and, O […] Sword of the Lord, when wilt thou be quiet! Surely, then, at such a Bloody Time as this, Men had need learn to Handle a Sword well; and study the Art of War. We are fallen into that Age whereof B•tln said, Who shall there […]? Now, my answer to that Question is; A man must first become a Good […], and then a Good Soldier, if he would new be able to Live. Never was there an Age wherein that Counsel of our Saviour was more seasonable for the World, in