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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.
And indeed, a proper PEACE, is the first thing, that I would hence take Occasion to Recommend unto my Neighbours; by which PEACE, I mean, a Dismission given to all Quarrels, Contentions, Animosities. If our Lord Jesus were now, To be Revealed from Heaven, in Flaming Fire, let Him not find in broiling in the Fire of wrath and strife, one against another; This Fire would but make us a more Combustible Fuel unto That.
I do not lay any stress upon a Pretended Prophecy, lately found (they say) among some old. Manuscripts of Venerable ••ds, at Rome, which speaking of great Revolutions to be in the Year 1688. adds, Cancta tamen m•ndi Sur••m […], as•ue Deorsum Imperi•, et Flictus u••ique grandis ••it.
I do not lay any stress upon a Pretended Prophecy, lately found (they say) among some old. Manuscripts of Venerable ••ds, at Rome, which speaking of great Revolutions to be in the Year 1688. adds, Cancta tamen m•ndi Sur••m 〈…〉, as•ue Deorsum Imperi•, et Flictus u••ique grandis ••it.