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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.
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.
I say then, That nothing is of more importance unto us, then for us to Shake off our Sinful Sleep? Only we are now to enquire How is this to be done?
For Answer to that Enquiry.
First, our Sinful Sleep, is to be shaken off, by the Revival of a Sincere Conversion.
We are to make sure of a Real and Thorough Conversion to God in Christ: Whereto we are called, with such Expressions a• those in Eph. 5.14. Awake thou that Sleepest, and arise from the Dead, and Christ shall give thee Light. We are to Wake; that is we are to Live; and therein we are to Turn. We are to Wake,; that is, we are to become sensible, What and Where we are, and Whither we are going; and to leave off that Ignorant and Unwary disposition of Soul, wherein our Original Sin has overpowered us. To be Waked is to be Warned. It was said in Math. 3.7▪ Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come! We are to take the Warnings which the God of Truth has given […]