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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.
[…], The Peace of the Letter Da•es will flow from the marvellous Holiness, and Righteousness of these Days. The Apostle ha's •••ly Determined it, in Jam. 4. 1. From whence co•• […] and B•anls among you? Come th•y not be•ce, Even of your Lusts? The Lusts of Covetous, Amb••ous, Revengeful men, are those things that now […] them together by the Ears. That French Fitchrand that ha's of late years kept a most all E•••p: in a flame of War, had so little Modesty as to Own in One of his Declarations, That the Glory of Empire was the Motive of his undertakings: Truly, some such Lusts is the unhappy Original of Every War; But in the Last Days, every such Lust, will be Restrained with more powerful […] than these Our Days afford. We are assured in Z•ch. 11.20. ⟨p. 17⟩It that Day, there shall & upon the Bridles of the Hoses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. It seems that men shall then Consecrate all that they are, and all that they have, unto the Service of God; Every place will Swarm with such Hol• men as will be always performing of Obedience unto God themselves, and Exciting all others to that Obedience. Ezekiels Temple will then be built among the Nations: which Temple, will be Holiness of Holinesses, that is, most Superlatively Holy. You cannot imagine that any Troops will then be Raised for the mischief of mankind, when the very Bridles of the Horses will be marked with, Holiness to the Lord. Holiness it self will then […] be the Middle of the World. When once men are […], they will then be, as we learn from Jam 3 17 P•• […]! Gentle Easy to b• E•••••ted f•ll of […] Good Fruits without wra••hg and without Hr. […] And we are also assured in