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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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But Awake, I beseech you, Awake, out of this unbecoming Sleep, and Read, and Think, and Pretty, […] the Father of Lights have given you some Light in those Prophecies, which you should C•v•t the Understanding of. Indeed the First step we are to take in our Studies, is. To get a large measure of Grace into our Souls. It is said in Dan. 1•. 10. Note of the wicked shall understand, but the Wise shall understand. Men that are without the Fear of God, will go little better to Work than an I••th […] upon the Prophecies of our Lord; nor is it likely that those who Drink any of the Romish Pois••n, should have a […] sharp enough to Pence into those Prophecies, much further than […], who ha's written a […] to prove, that the present Reign of the Pop•, is the promised […] of our Lord. But let us he like Abraham, for our Friend-ship with the God of Heaven, and we may make more hopeful Attempts in our holy Studies. What says the Psalmist, in Psal. 25. 14. The Secret of the Lord, is with them that fear him and it is His Covenant to make them to know it.
But Awake, I beseech you, Awake, out of this unbecoming Sleep, and Read, and Think, and Pr•ty, 〈…〉 the Father of Lights have given you some Light in those Prophecies, which you should C•v•t the Understanding of. Indeed the First step we are to take in our Studies, is. To get a large measure of Grace into our Souls. It is said in Dan. 1•. 10. Note of the wicked shall understand, but the Wise shall understand. Men that are without the Fear of God, will go little better to Work than an I••th 〈…〉 upon the Prophecies of our Lord; nor is it likely that those who Drink any of the Roish Poisn, should have a sharp enough to Pence into those Prophecies, much further than , who ha's written a to prove, that the present Reign of the Pop, is the promised of our Lord. But let us he like Abraham, for our Friend-ship with the God of Heaven, and we may make more hopefull Attempts in our holy Studies. What says the Psalmist, in