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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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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 I•cumbence 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 Math. 24. 46. Blessed is that Servant, whom His Lord when He cometh, ⟨p. 57⟩shall slad SO doing: And our SO Doing, that if the Kingdom of our Lord should now immediately break in upon us, we should be found already Initiating our selves at the Works that Kingdom, THIS is no small pare of the WATCHFULNESS, which especially in these Latter Days, we are called unto.
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 Priviledges 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