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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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Well then, Let good Researches into Sacred Prophecy, meet with no more Ill Resentments among the people of God. As for Profane persons, tis no wonder if they Care for note of these Things. It is what Prophecy it self ha's assured us of, in a Pet •. •, 4. There shall is the Last Dates come suffers, that shall far, where is the promise of His coming? And it is well noted by our most Learned Let, Our Lord counted it a pi••c• of […], unto His Church, to Reveal His Counsels so long before and Proclaims them ••th wise and Blessed, that Study them; then by the Censure of the Divine word, they must be Fools and Miserable, that neglect these Sacred Oracles. But for any Pious persons to give those things a Discountenance, is an Evil that S•aroe can be Accounted for. And yet as he Disciples himselves being told of our Lords Resurrection in Luke 24 11 The Words […] unto them, […] Tales, and they Believed […] not; ⟨p. 49⟩so, there are still among the Disciples, those that Explode the Things which they ought rather to Embrace, with many Ecstasies of Soul. Yea, such is their too R•ah, but Strong prejudice against those things, that if they do not like the first opposers of the Chiliad, da••ly deny any Divine Authority to the Rev••tive of John, and the Second F••stle of Peter, yet they cannot patiently hear to hear the Result of the m•st Estate Meditations upon those Prophecies. What is this, but a part of the Sleep, which the […] in these days are to be overtaken with:
Well then, Let good Researches into Sacred Prophecy, meet with no more Ill Resentments among the people of God. As for Profane persons, tis no wonder if they Care for note of these Things. It is what Prophrey it self ha's assur'd us of, in a Pet •. , 4. There shall is the Last Dates come suffers, that shall far, where is the promise of His coming? And it is well noted by our most Learned Let, Our Lord counted it a pic of , unto His Church, to Reveal His Counsels so long before and Proclames them th wise and Blessed, that Study them; then by the Censure of the Divine word, they must be Fools and Miserable, that neglect these Sacred Oracles. But for any Pious persons to give those things a Discountenance, is an Evil that Saroe can be Accounted for. And yet as he Disciples himselves being told of our Lords Resurrection in