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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.
But between in it T•••s, ⟨p. 38⟩we might see Antichrist Reigning in the World-at such a Ra•e, as that, although it ha's been an usual thing for him to Date h•s Writings, R•gnant• Christs. yet our Lord Jesus Christ is kept out of His Kingdom by his Insol••cies. Wherefore upon the Seventh Seal, we have Seven Trumpets, all sounding the Alarms of the Divine vengeance against the World, for their Continued Indisposition to the Kingdom of our Lord. The Blood of the Martyrs formerly shed, and the Antichristian Superstitions […] worship, and Impositions of Conscience, already one […] among the Christians, loudly called for […] Vengeance. At the First of the Trumpets, we have seen an Hall-storm of Bloody […] Invading the Roman Empire, until […] […] and •ackd the City of Rome it self; they Rushed on suddenly, & every where carried Blood and Fire with them. These Invasions fell upon the It […] Division, which was O• T••d of the Prefectors •hat the Empire had been divided into. And it is a little Surprising, that the Gothic Troubles both began and ended, with a Natural […], which […] tell •s, was the Astonishment of the World. At the Second of the Trumpets, we have seen a great Inundation of the Ba•••tions upon the Transalsiet parts of the Roman Empire, until the where Prefecture of God, another Tured of that Empire. […] the hands of the Invaders, There, was a whole Mountain cast into a […] of Blood; There the Empire […] lost is possession and Authority. At the Third of the Trumpets, we have seen the Principal Upholder, and as it were, the Star and •im•, of the Roman Empire ••lling; upon which, he Barbarians though they less off […] yet they kept the Roman […] cut, […]