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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.
IX It would be a great Evil in us, […] should spend our Days in Idleness, and not […] Diligent in such Employments, as may ••dorn the Doctrine of God, by Rendering us •••ful to those that are about us.
IX It would be a great Evil in us, 〈…〉 should spend our Days in Idleness, and not 〈…〉 Diligent in such Employments, as may ••dorn the Doctrine of God, by Rendring us •••ful to those that are about us.
X. It would be a great Evil in us, if […] should in any of our Carriage, or so […] in our D•scen•se, admit any thing that •••vour of a Lascivious or a Licentious […] position in our Souls.
X. It would be a great Evil in us, if 〈…〉 should in any of our Carriage, or so 〈…〉 in our D•scen•se, admit any thing that •••vour of a Lascivious or a Licenticus 〈…〉 •osition in our Souls.