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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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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.
But certainly, there is a Terrible Flood of Desolations, now Rolling over the World: and in such a Flood it becomes all the Creatures in the Ark or Church of God, that have any Antipathies unto one another, to lay them all aside. Methinks, it becomes all Protestants to unite at this Day, and instead of Smiting their Fellow Servants ⟨p. 58⟩[…] for their Differences, many of which have been in things that the Imposers have Confessed ••different, consider, whether the Lord will ol•• […] delay His co••tr. Aristides and Themest […] the Heads of two Great Factions in Athens, when they saw the Persians take advantage of their Divisions, presently struck hands, and said, Here we lay down all our Differences, until we have put at End unto the Pertawa: So, Al biades and Nicias, two great men of Athens, being at Variance, when they saw the Wickedness of one Hyperbol, who sought the Banishment of one of them, in order to the Destruction of other, they secretly met, and made a Reconciliation, and procured the Exile and Ruin of their Enemy. Cannot all Protestants now at last see those Intrigues of our Popish Adversaries, which are forcible Arguments for the like prudent, and speedy Accommodations? May our God now […] up many a Dy, to Negotiate a Pacification among the Reformed and Reforming Churches; and many a Brrough to spread Uniting […] among the people of God! Singular Crows will our Lord Jesus in His Kingdom have to bestow upon these Blessed Sons of Peace.