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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.
Well, a while after ensued the Second of the Woe Trumpets, which produced the Irruptions of the Turks, the Suce•••• of the Saracens, upon the Empire. Four S•lt•n•s, or Kingdoms of the them, were settled about Euphrates; but at last ⟨p. 41⟩uniting under one Sovereign, they have ever since proved such a Plague unto the Antichristian World, as it ha's never seen before. They were Originally such as had none but Horsemen in their Armi•t, […] E••ints that Vomit out Sulphu••an Powder, F•re and Smoke, were those by which they Killed men, and shed more Blood than all that had been in the World before them. T•a•indeed, a most Allusive thing to call them Horsemen; for they came out of Persia; and Pierce Signification Horse. Thus, in the Visions of Daniel, the King of Gracla is called, a Goat; because the Grecians were styled Aegrades, which ha's Wild Goats in the Signification it. Moreover, the Turks have sometimes come into the Field with two or three hundred thousand Horse. The Angel that •lowes in this Trumpet seems now to be, Cl••gendo Ra•cus; the Woe seems to be P••ssing away. I confess, as these Wees came upon the Cries of the Retired, Concealed, Persecuted Worshippers in the Temple of God; so the late horrible Impressions of the Turks upon the Empire, most be Reputed, the Revenges of God upon the Emperor (whatever contrary Advice his Confessor may have given him) so the T•e•chetous and Nes••dous Persecutions of the Pr•t […], that immediately ••receded them. If therefore, the Emperor should now at all Renew those Persecutions, us possible the Turks may yet make […] O set more upon his Territories, more ding than any in the so-mer Generations. But it is to be hoped, we have seen the last!