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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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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, ⟨p. 8⟩Having Salt in our selves, we have Peace one with another. Such a Spiritual Peace, is not all that we are to be Looking for; No, the Peace promised unto us, is One by which the L•st Days are to be distinguished; whereas All Days have admitted the Peace, No Days can Sp••il, or Quench that Peace, which Believers have in the Lord Jesus Christ, while in the World they must have Tribulation.
N•w this we are to know, That it lyes not meerly 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 Royled and 〈…〉 in themselves by any of those dreadful Storms that come upon the World; for, Being Justify'd 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,