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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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so that you may almost every where, after some Digging, throw up some unsuspected Intimations of this kind, whereas you will find impossible to forbear crying out, with some Transport of Soul, I have found! I have found! There is likewise a World of Safety, in Critical Studies upon out Distance from that Kingdom. There are indeed very U•sa•e Computations, to which, and by which, many have Exposed themselves. It ha's been Ridiculous to see, by what Chronology, by what Cabala, and with what Temerity, some have Steered, in Fixing, The end of the World; and there are many Temptations, into which men fall; when they find they have been too Bold in their ⟨p. 47⟩suppurations. But yet Modest Examination of […] the Time we are in, might prevent many a […] step, that otherwise may be taken by us. The Jews are so maliciously Apprehensive of this, That they, […] who […] the Times: and when a Samuel considered h•w long Time the Jews had •ow been in their Captivity, he cries out, Lord, I am afraid that the Jesus whom the Christians worship, i• indeed the J•st one? Pray, let them •isk on. But if the E••aimites in Egypt, had Sufficiently weighed, That the Four Hundred and Thirty years of their continuing as they were, […] much of being out; I suppose they would not have made such a Disastrous Expedition against the Canaanites, as that which in Psal. 78 9. is uttered among, The Dark sayings of old. On the other […], If Luther had been Apprehensive, that the Time appointed for making better and better […] than those which H•s and others had made an hundred years before, upon the […] was come on, what […], with his […], must it have insured into him?
so that you may almost every where, after some Digging, throw up some unsuspected Intimations of this kind, whereas you will find impossible to forbear crying out, with some Transport of Soul, I have found! I have found! There is likewise a World of Safety, in Critical Studies upon out Distance from that Kingdom. There are indeed very Usae Computations, to which, and by which, many have Expos'd themselves. It ha's been Ridiculous to see, by what Chronology, by what Cabala, and with what Temerity, some have Steered, in Fixing, The end of the World; and there are many Temptations, into which men fall; when they find they have been too Bold in their