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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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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.
Finally, Let us all Solace our selves in the ⟨p. 56⟩Fore-thoughts of that Kingdom, wherein all Peace will swallow up the Death which do's […] ••lict us every Day. When the Primitive […] ••ns were under their manifold Oppressions, they Thought, they Talked, they Wrote so much on, The Kingdom! The Kingdom! that the Silly Pagans Charged them with a Plot against the Roman Empire for it. But, we may take the Comfort of, The Kingdom, which is to bring Peace unto us with it, and yet he well able to, Silence the Ignorance of Foolish men.
Finally, Let us all Solace our selves in the ⟨p. 56⟩Fore-thoughts of that Kingdom, wherein all Peace will swallow up the Death which do's 〈…〉 ••lict us every Day. When the Primitive 〈…〉 ••ns were under their manifold Oppressions, they Thought, they Talk'd, they Wrote so much on, The Kingdom! The Kingdom! that the Silly Pagans Charg'd them with a Plot against the Roman Empire for it. But, we may take the Comfort of, The Kingdom, which is to bring Peace unto us with it, and yet he well able to, Silence the Ignorance of Foolish men.
IV. In the mean Time, let us A•trdate the Peaceable Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, by obtaining and maintaining as much of it Now among our selves, as may be Consistent with our present Circumstances. Or, as the Apostle has it, in 2 Pet. 3. 14. String yet Look for such Things, be Diligent that yet may be found of him in Peace; If our Lord should now presently come to settle the Peace of His Kingdom in the World. Indeed we cannot cause the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus to come, one Hour before, The Day which God ha's Appointed for the Judging of the World, by that man, who He hath Ordained. Nevertheless, to be making some saint Imitations of it, would be no less an Advantage to us, than tis Icumbence on us. If we would have the Privileges of that Kingdom, we should be found in such Dispositions and Behaviours, as that Kingdom will one Day bring into the World; Yea, Let us, Press on, if by any means, we might attain to the Resurrection of the Dead. We are told, in