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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.
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The Eastern Emperor holding a Correspondence with the Bishop of Rome, Contributed his w••m•st Assistance to Aggrandize and so to Antichristi••eize that Bishop, in hopes thereby at length to Recover his Western Empire; and the reasons now committed against the Kingdoms of the Lord Jesus, made men Ripe for the last […] Trumpets of His Judgments and Indignation. The First of those […] to brought plague of […] upon the Earth; to which Perhaps, the sprit•• of Prophecy in •o•l had a Eye many Ages before. From the […] of […] ignorance and •laspheny now in the World. O• Mathome•, a Blade Actually possessed by the Devil took Occasion with the Assistance of the a Mark, •ahricate a New Antichristianism, in the East, in tended for the Derision and Vexation of what was then Rising in the West. Both Jews and Greek were to undergo a particular Oppression […] his Tyrannies, and therefore the Names […] ⟨p. 40⟩of Abiddo• and of Apoll•o• were put upon him. His followers, called Saracens, were Arabians, and therefore most fitly called Locusts; it as much a Arabia do's use to afford such Insects; and the Hebrew word Arbim, or Arpin, well enough points at Arabians, as well as it Signifies, Harpies, the Poet Virgils description of which, is here after a sort Repeated, by John, in his describing of these Arabians. These, as they had Crowns of their Heads because all the Empires that had this Day taken up the East came from them; so they had Stings in their Tails, inflecting and ••susing the Ven• me of a False Religion where they came; and One like Pluto (whom the Pb•ti•ians called, Srarpl, or, Prince of the Locusts) was a King ever them. This Eastern Mock-Antichrist shortly […] me owner of New Rome, while Old-Rome remained in the hands of the Western; both of them aspire to the possession of Jerusalem, as having the promise of the Universal Monarchy; both of them agree to slavst the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus; but the smr ave all manner of Lingering Torments to the latter, for diverse times Five Monks, which uses to be the Summer Duration of the Durst: especially, to that Third part of the Empire which was in the Odent, where the Alom ns of Antichristiarim were obstinately committed by the Gacian Provinces, which have ot yet so Revolted from Antichrist, but that he ha's his Influences on them as well as Pretensions to them.