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A midnight cry an essay for our awakening out of that sinful sleep, to…
A midnight cry an essay for our awakening out of that sinful sleep, to which we are at this time too much disposed; and for our discovering of what peculiar things there are in this time, that are for our awakening. In a discourse given on a day of prayer, kept by the North-Church in Boston. 1692. / By Cotton Mather. ; Now published for the use of that church, together with a copy of acknowledgements and protestations made in pursuance of the reformation, whereto we are to be awakened. ; [One line of Latin text]A midnight cry an essay for our awakening out of that sinful sleep, to which we are at this time too much disposed; and for our discovering of what peculiar things there are in this time, that are for our awakening. In a discourse given on a day of prayer, kept by the North-Church in Boston. 1692. / By Cotton Mather. ; Now published for the use of that church, together with a copy of acknowledgments and protestations made in pursuance of the reformation, whereto we are to be awakened. ; [One line of Latin text]
Boston: printed by John Allen for Samuel Phillips, 1692
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.
Three Years are now passed, since our Merci••• God, by a wonderful Turn rescued this People fro• the Hands of those, who declared us, A People […] only to be Rooted off the Face of the Earth, and wh• might have been in Forwardness enough to accomplish, That Rooting Business. All this while, ou• ⟨p. 64⟩God comes, Looking for Fruit; and altho' He almost says, Cut them down! yet we are entering, One […], of Patience, wherein if we do nothing Remarkable about Returning to God, what Apology ••an we have in the Day of His pleading with us?
Three Years are now passed, since our Merci••• God, by a wonderful Turn rescued this People fro• the Hands of those, who declared us, A People 〈…〉 only to be Rooted off the Face of the Earth, and wh• might have been in Forwardness enough to accom•plish, That Rooting Business. All this while, ou• ⟨p. 64⟩God comes, Looking for Fruit; and altho' He almost says, Cut them down! yet we are entring, One 〈…〉, of Patience, wherein if we do nothing Remarkable about Returning to God, what Apology ••an we have in the Day of His pleading with us?
In the Prosecution of this REFORMATION, I ••ve but ONE THING at this Time, further to lay before you. 'Tis an Advice lately Agreed upon by he Watchful PASTORS, of the Churches hereabouts; and it runs in such Terms as these.