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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 2: CONCLUSION II.A midnight Cry. › Conclusion 2: CONCLVSION II.
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Men may be of Issachars Opinion, in […] 49.15. That R•st is Good. But if th•• do thus Opine▪ concerning a, Sinful Sleep had almost said, the Arms of Issachar inde•• belong unto them; yea their Folly is Grea••• than that of, The Wild Asses Colt. A Sin••• Sleep, is indeed, a Deadly Sleep; it is a stup•••fying, and a venomous Bed of Night-Shad••• whereupon men lie when they Sleep in Sin. About Lazarus of old, said the Disciple• in Joh. 11 12. Lord, if he Sleep, he shall […] w•ll. But upon a Sleep of Sin, it may […] said, If a man Sleep, Woe! to him▪ If a […] Sleep, he makes himself a prey to all his ••ternal and Infernal Adversaries; he lays […] self open to all manner of Blows upon […] his Interests. When the Kings Retinue […] been too fast Asleep, 'twas by David said […] to them, in 1 Sam. 26 16. The thing is not […] that thou hast done, Ye are worthy to dye ▪ •••deed there is not only a Desert of Death, […] also an Approach, of Death, in ou• […] Sleeps. As they render us Worthy to Die, they are Parts or S••ps of the Death if […] whereof they m•ke us Worthy. Yea, […] cannot be a more Deadly Symptom upon ••ny man, than for him to Sleep in the […] of Sin.
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