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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 4: The last SUPPOSAL.
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Finally, […] is there to stay for? Have we not seen already Fulfilled, Moses if not All of those-things, which are to proceed the Happy State of Peace, that is to come?
Finally, 〈…〉 is there to stay for? Have we not seen already Fulfill'd, Moses if not All of those-things, which are to proceed the Happy State of Peace, that is to come?
In general, Tis both the Moses and by Peter, with a Sufficient plainness intimated, That the Six Days wherein the World was making, were a Type of the Six thousand years, after which the Church is to enjoy a Blessed Sabbatism. Our Lord, ha's told us, that these Days, or Years of Trib•lati•• shall be shortened for the sake of the Elect; and the more particular Prophecies and Oracles of the Bible, seem to have curtailed that long line of later-Sabbatical Time. some Hundreds of years. we then, that have good cause to count our selves gotten at least Five Thousand, Six Hundred and Seventy Eight Yearsforward• ⟨p. 35⟩upon that Li•e, may surely Lift up our Heads!
In general, Tis both the Moses and by Peter, with a Sufficient plainness intimated, That the Six Dayes wherein the World was making, were a Type of the Six thousand years, after which the Church is to enjoy a Blessed Sabbatism. Our Lord, ha's told us, that these Dayes, or Years of Trib•lati•• shall be shortened for the sake of the Elect; and the more particular Prophecies and Oracles of the Bible, seem to have curtail'd that long line of later-Sabbatical Time. some Hundreds of years. we then, that have good cause to count our selves gotten at least Five Thousand, Six Hundred and Seventy Eight Yearsforward•