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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.
Secondly, There is like to be Peace in the Last Days, because in these Days, the great Incendiaries of the World, wi•• be taken out of the way. As now, Tis the Devil that is the Make•ate of the World; if you would know, what is the Reason that men can't let one another be ••i•t, it is in Sh•rt, Because the Devil is in them.
Secondly, There is like to be Peace in the Last Dayes, because in these Dayes, the great In•endiari•s of the World, wi•• be taken out of the way. As now, Tis the Divel that is the Make•ate of the World; if you would know, what is the Reason that men can't let one another be ••i•t, it is in Sh•rt, Because the Divel is in them.
The Devil is that monstrous Vulcan out of whose Forge our Swords and Spears were at first Educed; though we must now have them in our hands to put by his Passes at us. The same Devil that makes Demoniacs to tear and cut themselves, do's also cause men to Wound one another; and the same Devil that sometimes do's make Storms in the Air, do's also make Wars on the Earth. As in Rev. 12. 17. We read of, A War, of which the Dragon was the Enkindler; so there is indeed no War, which the Dragon is not the first Author and Raiser of. The Devil is a most Bloody Destroyer, and Envies unto us, all the Comfort of our Peace; hence there is rarely any Destruction, which this Angel of Death ha's not some Concernment in. There is no War, for the most part, which ha's not some stice on one side giving Rise unto it; now it may still be said, There is the Hand of Satan there! Who was it that once Provoked the Numbering of the People? Satan did it; and it is he that Provokes the wasting of the People still; it is an unutterable Satisfaction unto Satan to receive some Thousands of poor Souls falling into his greedy hands in one Morning from one Cruel and crimson Spot of Ground! Such leals do our Wars often feast the Dragon with. But in the Last Days, the Devil shall be confined unto a closer and a darker Dungeon, than that in which he ha's been hitherto Imprisoned. We find in