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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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II. But unto our E•adies on the Peaceable Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, we should […] our Prayers for it. Let us Long for, The State of Peace to come; and join our Cries, in the […] of the Martyrs, whom the Ten Primitive Persecutions had Sacrificed, How long O Lord, Holy and Tr•e! Tis a Particular in the Directory which our Lord ha's given us for our Prayers. Let thy Kingdom come; now there will he all Peace in that Kingdom: and it is the Charge which He ha's laid upon us, Keep not Silence, give the Lord no Rest, until He make Jerusalem a Praise it the Earth; now you will have a Vision of Peace in that Jerusalem. It is required of us, in Psal. 122. 6. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem: for That should we Pray, and for the hastening of that Peace, that shall be in and from the New-Jerusalem. Where God ha's given a Promise, methinks, we should not think much of a Prayer; since our God ha's told us of the Peace in the latter Days, it becomes us to say, For this ••use thy Servant has found it his heart, to make his Prayer unto thee. And, who knows what powerful and Effectual Jogs, our Prayers may give unto the wheels that may bring on the most Comfortable Revolutions? You find in Rev. 8 4• 5. The Prayers of the Saints quickly bring T•••drings, Voices, Lightnings, and Earthquakes with them: and thus, the great M• ••c•hon, hoped, That God world (and He Did) carry on the Reformation in Germany, because: many poor little Gracious Women, did use to meet and Pray for that Blessing. Be sine, The Nearer we are to, The Peace of the great Dry, ⟨p. 51⟩the more Prayerful should we be for the B••rk of that Day. When Daniel understood by […], that the Deliverance of the Lords People just at the […], he •ers himself to Prayer with Fasting before God; and implores, in