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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Tis possible indeed that you and I, may Die in the Storm; and yet a person of Note, in the Close of a Worthy Book, Dedicated unto the present King of Great Britain, cheerfully says, I can send you the News of a Co•ti••el uppercase of the Flourishing State of the Church, very s•or••l to begin, and to continue to the ••d of the World […] and therefore I desire all Good People, to take special care of their Health that they may be so Happy as to Live to see a fall confirmation of […] […].
Tis possible indeed that you and I, may Dy in the Storm; and yet a person of Note, in the Close of a Worthy Book, Dedicated unto the present King of Great Bri•tain, cheerfully says, I can send you the News of a Co•ti••el ••ercase of the Flourishing State of the Church, very s•or••l to begin, and to continue to the ••d of the World 〈…〉 and therefore I desire all Good People, to take special care of their Health that they may be so Happy as to Live to see a fall confirmation of 〈…〉 〈…〉.
However, you know 'twas Engaged unto a Prince that lost his Life in a Battle, a Chron. 34 28. Thou shalt be gathered unto thy Grave is Peace. When you Die, you shall go from not […] Peace; […] tis said of the Righteous, He shall enter into Peace; and when the New Jerusalem, withal the Peace of it, shall Come down from Go••, out of Heaven, made no doubt of […] being acquainted with it.