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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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In a Word, An Acquaintance with Prophecy's may have more than a little Influence upon the Accomplishments of those Prophecies. It was fore••ul perhaps, two hundred years before h••d. in Isai 4• 28. C•ras shall say to Jerusalem, Thus shalt be ••ilt. Tis now reported, that the showing of that promise unto Cyrus, was the thing their afterwards Excited him to Do what He Read. Thus, if at this Day, any Potent Prince, would suffer himself on he Convinced. That this were the Time for Distresses to be brought upon the […] of […]; how much Vigour ⟨p. 48⟩and Conduct might the Affairs of such a Prince he thence inspired with? Doubtless, their present MAJESTIES of Great BRITAIN, have seen cause to Consider on the Prediction of the Incomparable JURIEU, in the Dedication of his Excellent little Book entitled. The Balance of the S••ct•ary, and Rublished several years before the Late Revolutions in England, which have so Eminently made good that Prediction; God has placed you (says he, speaking of the then Prince and Princess of Orange) for Miracles in Israel, and for Signs, that he ha's intended your Highnesses to be the Principal Instruments of that Grand Deliverance, which He hath prepared for His Church, when the storm shall be ever.
In a Word, An Acquaintance with Prophecy's may have more than a little Influence upon the Accomplishments of those Prophecies. It was fore••ul perhaps, two hundred years before h••d. in Isai 4• 28. C•ras shall say to Jerusalem, Thus shalt be ••ilt. Tis now reported, that the showing of that promise unto Cyras, was the thing their afterwards Excited him to Do what He Read. Thus, if at this Day, any Potent Prince, would suffer himself on he Convinced. That this were the Time for Distresses to be brought upon the 〈…〉 of ; how much Vigour