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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 it is possible that many of Us, may Live to see the Peace of the Latter Days, getting ••orther on open us, than we are well aware. […] not so difficult in giving my Hopes leave […] The Time to savour, the set Time is […] at! as to feel no Encouragement for the Prayer which the Prophet, made upon such Hopes of old, in Psal. 102. 24. O my God, Take me not away is the midst of my Days. The Scripture seem to intimate, that just before the Peaceable Time, when it shall be proclaimed, The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ! there shall be a little Presage of it, in one of the Ten Kingdoms, which once made the Ten Hor•s of Antichrist, by a Wonderful Arising and Ascending of our Lords witnesses in that Kingdom. If then in some very Considerable Kingdom of Europe, where the witnesses of our Lord Jesus have most F••ished, or Pres•cted and Completed, their Testimony for Him, you should see a large Number of lost People, witnessing to the Kings, Office of Christ in His Church, and Enduring of Trials like to those which our Lord Himself underwent, for witnessing THAT Good Confession; If you should see that, […] it was in our Saviours case, a company of men like the Pharisees among the Jews, (possibly men of the same True Religion) but under the Influence of a Romanist, should at last prevail so far as to Scatter, break up, and Cut off, all the Congregations of these witnesses and thereupon, send Gifts one to another, or keep a Day of Thanksgiving as of delivered from some Dangerous Plo•; If you should see, just Three years & an half, after this, a Royal Grd•t of Liberty for these ⟨p. 55⟩Witnesses to Revive their Public Worship, like what the Jews had of old, by an Heathen Prince allowing them to Rebuild the Temple of God, […] on which the Prophet says, They were brought […] of their Graves: Lastly, If then you see the Revolutions of a mighty Earth-quake presently come upon the Nation, that shall Irresistibly carry on all the Interests of the Reformation there; I say, if you should ever see such a Thing as this come to pass, near the close of Our Twelve hundred and Sixty Days, behold, an Omen of Great things immediately to follow thereupon;