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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 we have both in point of Interest and in point of Gratitude. a further Obligation to such Prayers as these. For, one main Thing, in that State of Peace which we pray for, is, The Calling of so many Distinguished Israelites as may make a mighty Nation, into the Sheep f•ld of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the Israelites are brought […] to Repentance and Conversion. Then tis, that, The Times of Refreshing do come from the presence of the Lord. Now, the Restitution of Israel will be •• to us Gentiles, an Advantage Unspeakable and full of Glory. This is largely discussed by the Apostle Paul, in his Chapter upon it; where among other great Things, he says, in Rom 11. ••. If their Casting away, were the Reconciling of the world, what shall the Receiving of them be, but Life from the Dead! It seems, nothing less than, A Resurrection from the Dead, shall then bless the World, Moreover, Israel did once importune ⟨p. 52⟩of God, that we Gentiles might have the Breasts of His Institutions among us, for the nourish••• of our Souls. Notwithstanding the Envy […] carnal among them, they that had in them the Spirit of God, would say, as in Psal. 67 2.3 •et say way be brown upon Earth, and thy Saving Health among all Nations; Let the People Praise thee O God, Let all the People Praise thee; but the case is now so altered, that if we have any Ingenuity in us, we shall do as much for them! Thus, even by our Prayers for it, we are to, •asten the Day of God. I know not, That the Day of Israels Reduction has any Symptom of nearness, in the late Exsiccation of the D••d Sea; so far that the Ruins of the old Cities in it, of late years begin to appear [though I have Considered Ezek. 16. 5•, 55.] But I know that a Spirit of Prayer for it, every where would be a Blessed Symptom of it. It is that of which I may say, The whole Creation groaneth for it; Surely then, Our selves which have the first […] of the Spirit, cannot be without our Groans for the Acceleration of it. Our own Peace is this Enwrapped in our Prayers. Be sure, now Antichrist is come, we need not be afraid of praying, Pr moray Finis, as Tertllt tells us, the Christians of the First Ages were!