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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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We find those two things conjoined, in Rev. 1. 9. The Kingdom and Patience of Jesus Christ. We must have Patience though that Kingdom ⟨p. 53⟩should be longer coming than we think for, it we should have yet the more Patience because that Kingdom will make amends for all the […] •• siculties that have preceded it; but let […] Kingdom give Comfort unto us, as well as Patience. We are now Surrounded and harassed with innumerable Mischiefs; esp•clilly with Wars, that have all sorts of Mischiefs Complicated in them. We are filled with Vexation, when we see the Vanity that Embroils Humane Affairs, and Inflames people to Plunder, Slaughter, and Captivate One another. But, Not si •ale na••, et ol•• Sic Erit; Let it comfort us to think, There will be no such horrible D•idgs, i•those Times, that we are now […] unto!
We find those two things conjoyned, in Rev. 1. 9. The Kingdom and Patience of Jesus Christ. We must have Patience though that Kingdom ⟨p. 53⟩should be longer coming than we think for, it we should have yet the more Patience because that Kingdom will make amends for all the 〈…〉 •• siculties that have preceded it; but let 〈…〉 Kingdom give Comfort unto us, as well as Patience. We are now Surrounded and harassed with innumerable Mischiefs; esp•clilly with Wars, that have all sorts of Mischiefs Complicated in them. We are fill'd with Venation, when we see the Vanity that Embroils Humane Affayrs, and Enflames people to Plunder, Slaughter, and Captivate One another. But, Not si •ale na, et ol Sic Erit; Let it comfort us to think, There will be no such horrible Didgs, ithose Times, that we are now unto!