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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.
V. It would be a great Evil in us, if we •ould not keep a strict Guard, both on our […] Thoughts, as well as Words and Works on ⟨image ?⟩the Lords Day, & also on all that are under […] Influence, to Restrain them from the […] of that Sacred Rest.
V. It would be a great Evil in us, if we •ould not keep a strict Guard, both on our 〈…〉 Thoughts, as well as Words and Works on ⟨image ?⟩the Lords Day, & also on all that are under 〈…〉 Influence, to Restrain them from the 〈…〉 of that Sacred Rest.
VI. It would be a great Evil in us, If […] should not make it our Careful Study, to have our Families well Instructed, and well Governed, and in such a Condition as if agreeable to the Fear of God.
VI. It would be a great Evil in us, If 〈…〉 should not make it our Careful Study, to have our Families well Instructed, and well Governed, and in such a Condition as if agreeable to the Fear of God.
VII. It would be a great Evil in us, if by the Prevalency of a Private Spirit, we should be Backward unto any Public Servie wherein God shall call us, with our Perso or Estates to Serve our Generation or if we should with Unjust Neglect and […] Ill Require such as have been Service more especially, such as in Government […] the Ministers of God unto us for our Good.