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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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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 […] ⟨p. 20⟩of a Wrath to come, and a Wrath so Eternal, that after tis already C•me, there will be still more to Come, upon the Unregenerate; this tis to be Awake! We are to Wake that is, we are with solicitous & inquisitive Souls to Ask, What shall I do to be saved! and we are to Do what the word of God shall make us Know ▪ of what we Ask. We are so to Wake us to Look; Look Upward, and see, a God Angry▪ Look Downward, and see an Hell Gaping; Look Inward, and see our Cursed Hearts; Look Backward, and see our Wicked Lives. And we are then so to Wake, as to […]; Fly from the manifold entanglements of ungodliness; Fly to the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Refuge that has been set before us Briefly, we are to be Unquiet until our Peace with God, be made, by our closure with the Lamb of God; and until The Friendship ▪ settled between God and us, is maintained by our Communion with the Lord Redeemer, who is •o give unto us both Repentance, and Remission of Sins.
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