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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
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Acknowledgements and Protestations VOTED As Explaining the Obligations laid upon us by, our most Holy Covenant.
Acknowledgments and Protestations VOTED As Explaining the Obligations laid upon us by, our most Holy Covenant.
WE, that thro' the goodness of God, have been Combined, and are still Continued, a CHURCH of His, HAVING heretofore Consented unto the COVENANT of GRACE, according to the gracious Terms whereof, We have made Choice of the Lord JEHOVAH, Father, Son, and Spirit, as our God, and of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, as the glorious Mediator, upon whose Fullness of Merit and Power we Rely, as well to be strengthened for the Duties, as to be Invested with the Blessings of that Well-Ordered Covenant; and have therefore according to His Will, Incorporated our selves into that Evangelical▪ Church-State, wherein our Desires after the Su•e mercies of that Covenant, […] to be expressed, maintained, and answered: BEING herewithal sensible, That our Justification only by Faith in the Righteousness of Him, who is▪ Saviour and a Surety for us, do's very strongly oblige us, to close with all the Commandme•• of God, as Holy and Just and ⟨p. 67⟩Good, and as those Rules in conformity to which alone, our Peace can be lengthened out: AND BEING also Awakened, by the most heavy Judgements of Heaven, under which this country has been Weltering and Wasting for many later years, to suspect lest in the Hearts & Lives of US in particular, there may be found some of those ACCURSED THINGS, which have brought upon the Land, such a Long Variety of Sore Calamity: