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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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There is one thing more that I would be•• […] to accompany the Peace and Rest of our […] and that is, a Gospel CHURCH, to […] pursued every where with, A Zeal that shall E•t us up. We are now in those Earth quakes, that will certainly Soak▪ down all the Houses that are not of a Divine Institution and Constitution in the World; the Ordinances of an Evangelical Church order, are those things That cannot be Shaken; and the way to be safe at such a Shaking Time as is now before us, is to get as many of those Unshaken Things, among us as we can. The Planting of Churches is one of those Good Things that are now Required of us. The Vast Improvement of Navigation since the late Invention of the Load sto•e and the Compass, his, like the other Changes of the World, the Concerns of the Church in the Bottom of it; it makes us able to carry the Gospel unto such Corners of the Earth, as have hitherto sat in, The Region of the Shadow of Death. Now, Tis a great Scandal. That we should permit the Roman Catholics, to Exceed us, in Diffusive and Expensive Missions, for the Propagation of the Faith; and that so few of our Companies and Factories count themselves concerned for the Conveying of Spiritual Things to the Heathen, from whom we have so many Temporal: and by whom (which is dreadful to be spoken) Two T••ds of the World, are Covered unto this day! Were man more Vigorous to E•ang••ge the World, or if the Spirit of our ELIOT were more Universally prevailing in them (And within Twenty or Thirty years, you will ⟨p. 63⟩see more of This they would not only more Honour and Enrich themselves, but also more serve The End, than they are well aware: I mean time, it belongs unto us, to see, that […] Our selves do not keep at a Distance from that Church-state, which our Lord Jesus Christ ha's appointed for us. That Church state is, The Kingdom of Heaven; and it fits us for a further Kingdom. Tis not good being Abroad in a Storm; and you forget not, who 'twas that said, O•• Thing have I desired; That I may dwell in the House of the Lord; for in the Time of Trouble, He shall Hide me. But the […] of Churches is a thing, about which we are at the same Time to be Solicitous. We find that when the Twelve hundred and Sixty Days of Antichrist, are out; there are Thirty Days, and Forty Five Days more, which, Blessed is be that waits and comes unto.