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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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'twill argue, That the last Slaughter of the witnesses of •ver, in that Kingdom, and that the Kingdom shall shortly after become Eminent for all sorts of Encouragements given to Religion there, in the Sight and Spite of all its Adversaries; 'twill argue, that the like work shall quickly be carried on through the other parts of E••ope, and that the witnesses, like Elijah, dropping off the Me• tle of their Sackcloth, shall every where pass into a State of prosperous Holiness, beyond any that has been in the former Ages. The Faithful Ministers of our Lord Jesus Christ among us, that yet Preach and […] the Cross, and Conflict with the Straits and wants of a Sackcloth Condition, have a particular Comfort thus provided for them, in the Omens of our Days; Knew it, ye Witnesses of our Lord, the Old Clothes of the wilderness, may be taken from you, sooner than many of you imagine, and you may shortly Enter into that Rest, where, you shall have, The Garment of Praise, for the Spirit of Heaviness!
t'wil argue, That the last Slaughter of the witnesses of •ver, in that Kingdom, and that the Kingdom shall shortly after become Eminent for all sorts of Encouragements given to Religion there, in the Sight and Spite of all its Adversaries; t'wil argue, that the like work shall quickly be carried on through the other parts of E••ope, and that the witnesses, like Elijab, dropping off the Me• tle of their Sackloth, shall every where pass into a State of prosperous Holiness, beyond any that has been in the former Ages. The Faithful Ministers of our Lord Jesus Christ among us, that yet Preach and 〈…〉 the Crose, and Conflict with the Straits and wants of a Sackloth Condition, have a particular Comfort thus provided for them, in the Omens of our Dayes; Knew it, ye Witnesses of our Lord, the Old Cloathes of the wilderness, may be taken from you, sooner than many of you imagine, and you may shortly Enter into that Rest, where, you shall have, The Garment of Praise, for the Spirit of Heaviness!