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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.
To P•sci•us Owns!
To P•sci•us Ownes!
And this Peace is Elegantly Expressed unto us, by the Notion of mens Altering and Employing their Weapons of War, to such Uses, as Peace affords at once Opportunities and •oitat• ous to; tis […]. Men shall then have no Occasion for Swords and Spears; but apply themselves to Fit••g rather than Kissing of one another. Swords and Spears have been such mischievous things, that methinks, tis a very easy Sentence that is here passed upon them. To be Turned into Plough shares, and into Traning books! when God •nj••ned a Sabbath every Seventh Year to the Land of Cannon, as a Shadow of that State wherein this Peace is to the Enjoyed. He for that Year for had much of the Husbandry usual in it. But now He comes to Paint out that State of Peace, tis from the Tools of Hisb••ary, even Plough••• and •ra•ing books, that he Fetches the Colours of it. It is no less the Disgrace, than the Honour of English men; that we must always have a Prophecy about us; for the Prophecies which we too s•ndly ••ore upon, […], either the C•••ts of […] […] Astrol•• or the Tales of some […] […], and ⟨p. 6⟩