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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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Sorts of Beasts, and Insects and Serpents, have in these Ages been met withal. But in the Close, our Lord Jesus Christ, our Second Adam, sets Himself in espouse His Church, now under the Notion of a Want•, unto Himself. And wh•• is now to follow, but a Sabbath, wherein our Lord Jesus, will give His Church to see that R•st, which Re••ies for the People of God. It is possible, that the Nation, which ha's discovered a peculiar Zeal for the Weekly Sabbath, may enter sooner than other Nations, in o the Twilight of that Rest. But, before, God will wonderfully Break the Pe•ce of those, who do not carefully Celebrate the Sabbaths which are the Figures of the Kingdom wherein we shall have Peace. England saw this, in the Wars that quickly Ensued upon the Sports, which the people were once Invited unto the Profanation of the Lords Day withal. Twas the Expression of […] Worthy Person, when […] then heard the D•••ns beating for Dances and Frolics on the Sabbath Day, I fear lest the Holy God Punish this Iniquity with beating up Drums for a March on this very Day! and you know how that […] was quickly brought upon the Nation. Thus, a person of Quality reflecting upon, The Tears of Germany, Printed fifty years ago, saw cause to say, he believed the Wars of Germany, would not be over yet, Because is a Catalogue of their provoking Evils, there was no Confession made of Sabbath breaking too Common among them; and you again know what a Stage of Blood and ⟨p. 62⟩Fire the Empire is, to this very Day.
Sorts of Beasts, and Insects and Serpents, have in these Ages been met withal. But in the Close, our Lord Jesus Christ, our Second Adam, sets Himself in espouse His Church, now under the Notion of a Want•, unto Himself. And wh•• is now to follow, but a Sabbath, wherein our Lord Jesus, will give His Church to see that R•st, which Re••ies for the People of God. It is possible, that the Nation, which ha's discovered a peculiar Zeal for the Weekly Sabbath, may enter sooner than other Nations, in o the Twilight of that Rest. But, besre, God will wonderfully Break the Pece of those, who do not carefully Celebrate the Sabbaths which are the Figures of the Kingdom wherein we shall have Peace. England saw this, in the Wars that quickly Ensu'd upon the Sports, which the people were once Invited unto the Profanation of the Lords Day withall. Twas the Expression of Worthy Person, when then heard the Dns beating for Dances and Frolicks on the Sabbath Day, I fear lest the Holy God Pnish this Iiquit with beating up Drums for a March on this very Day! and you know how that was quickly brought upon the Nation. Thus, a person of Quality reflecting upon, The Tears of Germany, Printed fifty years ago, saw cause to say, he beleiv'd the Wars of Germany, would not be over yet, Because is a Catlogue of their provoking Evils, there was no Confession made of Sabbath breaking too Common among them; and you again know what a Stage of Blood and