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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.
'Tis not by any thing like Chance, but by a Reasonable, and I hope, a Profitable Choice ▪ that a Text from that very Paragraph […] Scripture, i• n•w to be laid before us: […] there be as good success attending of it! […] Advice from Heaven this Day unto us […] Take up and read ▪ and the particul•• Sentence of the Inspired and Unerring Writings, which I must Invite you to Take […] and Read; is that, in ⟨image ?⟩Romans XIII.11. AND THAT KNOWING THE TIME, THAT IT IS HIGH TIME TO AWAKE OUT OF SLEEP.
'Tis not by any thing like Chance, but by a Reasonable, and I hope, a Profitable Choice ▪ that a Text from that very Paragraph 〈…〉 Script•re, i• n•w to be laid before us: 〈…〉 there be as good success attending of it! 〈…〉 Advice from Heaven this Day unto us 〈…〉 Take up and read ▪ and the particul•• Sentence of the Inspired and Unerring Wri•tings, which I must Invite you to Take 〈…〉 and Read; is that, in ⟨image ?⟩Romans XIII.11. AND THAT KNOWING THE TIME, THAT IT IS HIGH TIME TO AWAKE OVT OF SLEEP.