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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 2: The Second 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 Second Consideration.
To Learn War, or, to use the Sword and the Spear, is not only a Lawful, but also a Needful, yea, and a very […] Thing. There is a Sect of men at this Day in the World, who Succeed the old Me […], as well as other old Har•ticks, in declaiming against all Military […]; but this is not the only thing wherein they show themselves no less unscriptural than Irrational, The Blessed John, of old gave several Words of Command, ⟨p. 75⟩unto the Souldierd in this Congregation, but none of them was, Lay down your Ar•• The greatest Favourites of Heaven mentioned if […] the Oracles of God, were men that carried Sword by their Sides; who dearer to God, than David than Joshua, than the War-like Judges of Israel. The Thrice-Holy God Himself affects to be called. A […] of War; and when an Army was Raised once among the People of God, we find in Jud•. 5 23 The Angel of the Lord said, Curse ye •i•terly, then that came not thereunto. I p••y, what Warrant have we to Expect Miracles for our daily preservation when in our Swords we may have the Mans by which the Church of God •n's been hitherto protected? And what but […] can preserve those that have no Swords to […] off ••aders which every place is Exposed […]? Tis true, That though the story of the T•••an Legion be a F•ble, yet there are Cases wherein, […] and […], are to be our only […]; But for all that, Men have their Live, I […], […], which the very ght of Nature teaches them to maintain by stronger Arms against all […] Injuries. Christianity never instructed men to lay down that Natural Principle of Self-[…], which Principle some-times calls aloud, […] a Sword? The Steel will always Command the Gold; men can have no […] […] unto them, if they do not make sure of might, whereby they may, Vi Rplre. That a […]; wh Wre it […] […] for a Christian: to be a […], was drive to this further Absurdity, that he […] a […] […] to be a […] too, when the Blood of a Maor might he thereby nlangee. But What?