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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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The World had a Fourth Day, from Jesus to Antichrist. Now do's our Lord Christ, The Sun of Righteousness, Exhibit Himself; and the Church becomes as a Moon, with her Borrowed Various Changeable Illuminations though not without her Spots, depending on Him; and Stars, or Ministers, of several Magnitudes, among which, the Apostles were of the First, are now S••ning in the Orbs of Heaven. The World had a Fifth Day, from the Rise to the Height of Antichrist; or, from the Fifth Century to the Eleventh. Birds and Fishes are the Emblems of the men, that make the st••rs in these Ages. First, there were men of Bold, Soaring, During Spirits, that would needs fly so high, as to Raise Disputations upon the Trinity, the Generation of the Son, the Procession of the Holy Ghost. In those Times, tis known how all matters ran upon the Flights of the Arian, M•tedo•ian, Ent•chian, and such other Har•sies; the Flights were sometimes Happy, and often Too far. Afterwards, there are Spawned Vast Shoals of other Creatures, that Live upon Filth and Mud, and upon Devouring one another; they had the Multitude on their side, and they dwelt in the Abyss of Ignorance; and those Great Whales, ⟨p. 61⟩the Popes of Rome have had a particular Consideration among them. The World ha's a Sixth Day, from the Height to the Fall of Antichrist, which is between Seven and Eight hundred years.
The World had a Fourth Day, from Jesus to Antichrist. Now do's our Lord Christ, The Sun of Righteousness, Exhibit Himself; and the Church becomes as a Moon, with her Borrow'd Various Changeable Illuminations though not without her Spots, depending on Him; and Stars, or Ministers, of several Magnitudes, among which, the Apostles were of the First, are now S••ning in the Orbs of Heaven. The World had a Fifth Day, from the Rise to the Heighth of Antichrist; or, from the Fifth Century to the Eleventh. Birds and Fishes are the Emblems of the men, that make the st••rs in these Ages. First, there were men of Bold, Soaring, During Spirits, that would needs fly so high, as to Raise Disputations upon the Trinity, the Generation of the Son, the Procession of the Holy Ghost. In those Times, tis known how all matters ran upon the Flights of the Arian, Mtedoian, Entchian, and such other Harsies; the Flights were sometimes Happy, and often Too far. Afterwards, there are Spawn'd Vast Shoals of other Creatures, that Live upon Filth and Mud, and upon Devouring one another; they had the Multitude on their side, and they dwelt in the Abyss of Ignorance; and those Great Whales,