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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 3: The third SUPPOSAL.
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The third SUPPOSAL.
There seem to be some Symptoms, upon the Turkish Empire, that speak hopefully about our Blessed State of Peace, and say. It will come quickly. There are Seven most Memorable Dispensations of Judgment upon the Roman Empire, which are to make way for the Peaceable Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ; and these are Exhibited unto us, under the Notion of so many Trumpets, all sounding like the Cor•ets for Seven Days about Jeri••• of old, until the fall of Rome. The Three last of these, are called, •••-T••mp•ts, as being more woeful to the Roman Empire, than the rest; and upon the last of all it is proclaimed, The Kingdoms of this world, are become the Kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; Then we shall have done with our Swords and Spears•, Tears with Wars will all be gone: Well, you cannot but allow me, with all sensible Interpreters, that the second […] Trumpet is the Turkish Empire; which begun to play its ••c•k• upon ⟨p. 32⟩the Roman Empire in the Tenth and Eleventh Century, and at last between the years Fourteen and Fifteen hundred, Seized Constantinople it self into its hands. All those Execrable Pleaders whom we call, Conquerors, from the beginning of the world, have hardly shed such Rivers of Blood, as these woeful Turks have done. But how long must this game hold? There seems to be a Term allotted for them, in Rev. 9. 14,15. Loose the Four Angels which are bound in the great River Euphrates; and the four Angels were loosed, which were •r•pred for an Hour, and a Day, and a Month, and a Year, to stay the Third part of men.