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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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Good NEWS in Bad TIMES. › DOCTRINE. › Supposition 2: The second SUPPOSAL.
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The second SUPPOSAL.
The Period of the Papacy seems to be at the Door; and our Blessed State of Peace, will then be quickly Introduced. The Peaceable Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, ha's ever now and then begun a little to show it self; it begun to Open a little in several Instances during the Primitive Times; especially at the Abolition of Pagans! […] ⟨p. 28⟩in the Days of the great co stantive: but still there was a Seal clapped upon it, because the Kingdom of Antichrist must first come in play, which is to a bide, as Daniel tells […], nuil the Time come, that the Saints possess the Kingdom. Then Farewell Swords, Farewell Spears, Farewell all the Lostrum ••s of Death! Wars are at an end. Well, There is ground for Hope that the Reign and Rage of Antichrist is within a very little while of that End, which we are all wishing thereunto. We do not want for Demonstration, That the Pope of Rome is the Antichrist: Indeed, the Word, Antichrist most properly and Exactly Signifies, The Vicar of Christ; if one would say in good Greek, The Vicar of Christ, no fitter Term could be used, than, that of Antichrist; so that, E•••re Toe! the Pope unawares proclaims himself to be Antichrist, while he calls himself, The Vicar of Christ [see […] Form of Speaking, in the Greek Text; of Act. 13 7.] Now tis more than Once or Twice, declared unto us, That the Duration of the Antichrist an Empire is to be in for Twelve hundred and Sixty years. If therefore we can tell when to Reign those Twelve hundred and Sixty years, we may guess when to Conclude them without any Difficulty. And now, tis admirable that no m•• Notice ha's been taken of that perspicuous Epoch. in Rev. 17. 12. The Tea Horns which thou •amst are T•• Kings, which have Received no Kingdom at yet, but Receive power at Kings one Hour with the st; the meaning of which is thus much; when you see Tom Sovereign Kings appearing in the Roman Empire, you may take it for granted, that the Tower of Antichrist is saily Commenced. Nw all men know, that in