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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Good NEWS in Bad TIMES. › DOCTRINE. › Supposition 4: The last SUPPOSAL.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Barbarian in the East also then made Hideous havocs; there came likewise an Universal Famine; a wasting Plague raged every where for fifteen years together; at last, no less than Thirty Tyrants together, fell to shedding of Blood, through the Extent of the Empire. At the opening of the Fifth Seal. we have seen Soils under the Altar; and a most horrid Persecution, managed by Di•••sian, and them h•• f•llow'd him; a Persecution which lasted in its Heat for a years together; a Persecution, which, for a Sec••••• […] […] Bloodiness, in one […] (that of Egypt) Massacred an Hundred and […], four Thousand men, Persecution in which they prevailed so far, that they set up their Tr•ump••l Pillar, with a, Superstati••• […] […] upon them; and […] ⟨p. 37⟩whence came the Aera M•rtyr•••, so famous in the Church of God. At the last, we have seen the opening of the Sixth Seal, which produced the fall of Paganism in the days of Constantine; to the days of T•••dosi••. Here was an Earth-quake that changed the face of all Aff•vr•; here the Devil, and the Religion, & •his Priests, were Eclipsed, and fell to the Ground; •here were the Temples and Idols of Heathenism […] vid o•• of their places; here could one have seen the Invisible Empire of the De•••s, one might have behold all the •ights of the terrible, Consternation. In a word, here was a Type of what is to be in the Fall of Popery, at the coming of our Lord, in the Seventh Seal, we should have now seen the Peaceable Kingdom of our Blessed Jesus, offer so many confounding Judgments, upon the Adversaries of that Kingdom; but the Servants of God in the New Jerusalem had still a Seal upon them. The Christian Emperors afforded a Disguise for the Antichrist which was now to Rise and when the City of Rome had been more than Twelve hundred years computing, As […] Candita, now the Empire breaking into Ten Kingdoms, that abominable City continues another like […] under another Lord. Antichrist was Conced as early as Twenty five years after the Acesion of our Lord; the Apostles give Notice of him […]; and there was the Rot of his Number; and, by the way, tis all wonder, to sea how that Number is every where Sacred in the Church of […] Antichrist was cnleated about Six hundred and Sixty years after th, when Image, worship was pressed by this wicked nezar, with the Rain of such I […] […] Emperors as refused i.