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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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But that which adds to our Satisfaction is, The Dispatch that his been made of those things that are to make way, for the Kingdom of our Lord. We have a Line of Time, in the Revelation, drawn from the Resurrection of our Lord, unto that Kingdom, wherein He will give Peace unto us; and a full Commentary upon what had been said by Daniel about the Fourth M• ••rchy. First, There were Seven Seals, or stay upon that Kingdom, all of which we have seen opened, so, that the Kingdom, would have come, if there had not then been a Mack-Kingdom to get the start of it. At the opening of the First Seal. we have seen a warrior come from the East; namely, Vespasian [and Tit•s] who was in the East, when proclaimed Emperor; he had but a Bow, and his Horse was white; because the war in this Time did not so much affect the Empire; nevertheless, he conquered Judea, and Christianity was Established by the Conquest, which he made upon the Jewish Temple and worship. At the opening of the Second Seal, we have seen a Warrior, come from the West; namely, Trajan [and Adri•• ] a Native of Spain, which is in the West; he had a ••d Horse, and a great Sword, because of the Cruel and Civil Wars is his Time; occasioned especially by the general Revolt of the Jews, who bu•cheted Six hundred Thousand persons in the first Outrage of their Fury, and were not Subdued without the Slaughter of more than Two Million People. At the opening of the Third S••l we have seen as warrior come from the South; namely, Severus [and Alexander] who was of •n African, which ⟨p. 36⟩in a Southern Original; he had a Black Horse, with Balances, and Orders about Cor• and O […] and Wine; because of the Solemn Imperatorial Justice which then took place; for never were Public or Private To••ves more Exemplarily Punished, than in those Reigns; and admirable Edicts about Corn and Wine and O,•, were then also most Literally emitted unto the World. At the opening of the Fourth Seal, we have seen, a Warrior come from the North; namely Maximin [to Alian] who was of a Thracian, which is a Northern Original; he had a Pale Horse, with Deadly Consequents of Sword, Hanger, Death, and wild beasts, because, this Tyrant perpetrated the most Bloody Cruelties upon all Sorts of People; he was a Devil of a man, and just after him came another Tiger, who oftentimes would Cut the Throats of three or four thousand in a Day.