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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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There is▪ first, something that I may call a Moral Sleep of the Soul. Which is▪ when […] not Active, but rather useless in us. When a man […], either his own, or an higher.) You may safely say of that man, He's fast Asleep. It was said in Ps. 94 8 Understand, ye Brutish, among the people. A Brutish people are • Sleeping People. There are some […] the common Rules of Rea••n, but […] if all the powers of Reason were Asleep within them. Tis a Rule of Reason, Where a•l ot•ers perish, there I s•ould not venture; nor shou•d I Drink, where all that have tasted before me, do meet with Death in the Pot: It is • Rule of Reason, When I follow any way, I should foresee the end it will bring me to. It is a Ru•• of Reason, I shou•d not expose my self to the […] & Vengeance of an Enemy, with which there is no possibility of my making my party good. That Reason which is given us for our conduct in a dangerous world, has many such Rules whereby to steer. But, These, and many more such Rules of Reason how little are they regarded by the most of men? At least in the affairs of their Immortal Souls; whereof Reason says, Men should be most exactly Rational? Tis because of a certain Sleep that has Locked up the Apprehensions of Reason in them.
There is▪ first, something that I may call a Moral Sleep of the Soul. Which is▪ when 〈…〉 not Active, but rather u•ele•s in us. When a man 〈…〉, either his own, or an higher.) You may safely say of that man, He's fast Asleep. It was said in