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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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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.
You will give me leave to say, The people of God upon EARTH shall have this Peace; for, I pray, where else would you look to site the use of Plough shares and Pruning books?
There are three things, that here offer themselves to be Enquired into; First, what, Secondly, where, and Thirdly, when will be that State of Peace, which is intended for the People of God.
1. Let us in the first place Enquire, WHAT will be that State of Peace, wherein we are told, Men shall not learn war any more?
N•w this we are to know, That it lies not merely in the Blessed Settlement and Composure of Spirit, which Believers in all Ages, are the Subjects of. When our Lord Jesus went away to Heaven. He left us that Legacy, in John 14. 27. Peace I leave with you my Peace I give unto yea. Hence tis, that our Spirits are not Roiled and […] in themselves by any of those dreadful Storms that come upon the World; for, Being Justified by Faith, we have Peace with God. Hence tis, that our Spirits have a Disposition to Love and Serve, the […] that are our Brethren in the World; for,