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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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Application.
But since these things are so, what shall we do […] I have been making some Essays upon The Time of the Day; a few more upon The Work of the Day, may well accompany them. It will be well, if we may so have understanding in the Times, as to Know what we ought to do with reference to the future Kingdom of our David. Accept, I pray, of this Counsel then, […] coming from the God of Heaven to us; Labour it be found in ⟨p. 45⟩such Frames, and such Ways, as the State of PEACE •ow advancing •pe• the World, would oblige us unto.
But since these things are so, what shall we do 〈…〉 I have been making some Essayes upon The Time of the Day; a few more upon The Work of the Day, may well accompany them. It will be well, if we may so have understanding in the Times, as to Know what we ought to do with reference to the future Kingdom of our David. Accept, I pray, of this Counsel then, 〈…〉 coming from the God of Heaven to us; Labour it be found in ⟨p. 45⟩such Frames, and such Wayes, as the State of PEACE •ow advancing •pe• the World, would oblige us unto.
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