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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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PREFACE.
THE Question put by the People to the Prophet, wir•• the Success and F•ry of a Mighty Conquero•• threa•• d them, Watchman, hat of the Night is it? Is it the E•s•ing not attended, and answered with words no: ••ether a like these of the Apostle, •he Night far spent, the Day is at hand. when the cattlemen of the Artillery lately Commanded So they did, when they only Requested) of me. I fou•d I had formerly more once on like Occasions Preached and so much of Military Duties, that my Thoughts, as it were by some Compulsion. ••ed now unto the PEACE hereafter to expected; and my Second Thoughts assu••d that I could not readily do my Neighbours a Service, than by advising them about the come upon us and war unto us. I am not […], tho' I am ever too unserviceable, that I have been l•ft in any thing to be so Dis••• ••viceable unto my •••ntry as to deserve their ••eg•r; and now I let them set, that I my self so much it Clarity with them, as, To give the Time of the Day.