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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.
But let me, Secondly, bespeak a Sacred REST, as well as a settled Peace, in the Churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. His Kingdom will be the Sabbath of the Creation; and so much of the Sabbath as we have, so much of that Kingdom we do as it were Take by Force afore-hand, while the Substance of it is detained from us. Tis no wrong to the History of the ⟨p. 59⟩Creation, if we discern this M•stery as also represented in it; Profound Writers have […] […] the way. The forlorn Mass of […] horribly defaced and Confounded by Sin, […] of as God will not own Himself the Author, […] He will not say, It is Good; had yet the Spirit of God presiding over the Waters or the People, and still preserving somewhat of His Interest in them. This World of mankind, had One day, from Adam to Abraham; in which men had first an Evening, or Dimmer, and then a Morning, or Brighter Notice of the Messiah, who is, The Light of the world. The Church […] self, was this while an unformed, and unshaped thing in dispersed Families; but they had some Light of the Messiah, though He were not to come until some Days or Ages after; yet was the Light of the Church distinguished by God from the Dark of the world, however He Blesses not the world in their Separation from the Church. The World had a Second Day, from Abraham to Moses. God now began to set apart His own People, from the Rest of the Waters; but the Separation was hitherto Imperfect, there were other Godly persons yet left in many other places. He called a people up, unto an Heavenly Church state; but so small was the Number the people thus advanced in the Houses of a […] Patriarchs, that they were no more in Comparison with the rest, than the Clouds are to the Seas; however, twas fit they should make some Figure in the Book of God; for from them have come down the Ruins of the Blessings on us all. The World had a Third Day from M••es to Jesus. The Separation of Gods People from the Waters ⟨p. 60⟩was now Completed, in the National Church of Israel; 'twas ripe for a Blessing, yea, for a •e•• […] one. The People of the most High, now […] as a Dry Land; the Church is not like the […] (as the World is) barren, rugged f•ll of Monsters; and though the Sea be always beating upon it, yet is keeps her Ground. Yea, the Fruits of all Graces, Virtues, and good Works, in an agreeable Diversity, are Conspicuous on it; if Weeds appear, they are to be plucked up.