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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.
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.
Good NEWS in Bad TIMES.
Delivered On the 1d. of the 4•. 1691. Unto the ARTILLERY COMPANY of the Massachuset-Colony, New-England.
THE words which an A•••l from Heaven once used unto the Shepherds, ••bold, I bring you Good News of Great Joy, are those which I may at this time Venture to use unto all the P••us, yea, even unto the Armed •art of this Auditory; I have Good News for you at this Day, wherein there is more than a little Enquiry after News; and you shall have it, from Isaiah 2. 4.
They shall Beat their Swords into Ple•• shares, and their Spears into Pruning books; Nation shall not lift up their Sword against Nation; ••ither shall they learn War any more.