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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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Ponder diligently, Isai. 1. 26. and Isai. 60. 17. and Ezek. 45. 8.
III. we shall then in the Last-pl•• Enquire, WHEN shall men see that State of Peace, which will make it needless for them to Learn War any more?
It must be Confessed, That many famous men have mistaken in their Conjectures about the Approaches of that Peaceable State. But the mistakes which they fell into, may rather Advantage us, than Discourage us; and prove so ma Sea-marks to prevent our Ship-wracks Nor is it any Presumption for us to make our Humble & Modest Computation of the Times; inasmuch as the Lord Jesus Christ ha's given us a Revelation of them; wherein are Discovered some things which before His Ascension were concealed from all mankind; and whereof He hath said unto us, Let him that hath ••i•do•, count the Number.
It must be Confessed, That many famous men have mistaken in their Conjectures about the Approaches of that Peacable State. But the mistakes which they fell into, may rather Adventage us, than Discourage us; and prove so ma Sea-marks to prevent our Ship-wracks Nor is it any Presumption for us to make our Humble & Modest Conputation of the Times; inasmuch as the Lord Jesus Christ ha's given us a Revelation of them; wherein are Discovered some things which before His Ascension were concealed from all mankind; and whereof He hath said unto us, Let him that hath ido, count the Number.