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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
A midnight Cry. › Conclusion 1: CONCLUSION I.A midnight Cry. › Conclusion 1: CONCLVSION I.
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CONCLUSION I.
CONCLVSION I.
There is a Sinful Sleep, whereto […] Souls of men are liable.
There is a Sinful Sleep, whereto 〈…〉 Souls of men are liable.
We may not Imagine that our Souls […] fall into the Sleep of a Senseless Condition, when we Die; no, the least suspicion of su•• a thing would make me cry out, and eve•• good man would join with me in that Exclamation, God forbid! The Opinion of th• Psychopannychist, or, Soul-sleeper, is too vile • thing for any man to swallow. If any Creature that is called Man, will suppose, that ⟨p. 10⟩when he Dies, he has not a Never-lying Soul, to exist in […] apprehensive of his […], Let him […] only a little more […], to make a […]. For my part, I cannot Heard among such Dreamers, nor could the Apostle Paul, when he said, I […] to be […], a•d to be with Christ. When men Die, then indeed they S••ep; How? •Tis in regard of their Bodies rather than their […] The very Devils themselves tho' the most unblushing Liars, yet hav been sufficient and credible Witnesses to this Truth. 'Tis well known, that the Devils make a Compact with some Witches, to be the Masters of their Souls upon their Departure hence; and such Wches have been among our selves Convicted by so fair and full a process of Law, as would render the Deniers thereof worthy of no Reasonabler Company than that in […] and greater Prodigies than any that re in Witch craft it self. If any therefore will not Believe Mses and the Prophets, which tell us, that our […] elsewhere Ar, and […] when our Bods are Incinerated in their Graves, Let them know, That some have cme unto us from the amed for our Conviction of it. Nevertheless, That our Souls do often fall into the Sleep of a Secure Condition, while we Live is a thing whereof we have, alas, too pernicious, too lamentable Evidences.