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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
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.
APPLICATION:
By way of Examination, and Excitation, and Exhortation, there are many things, that might be now set before us. But instead of the Ordinary method wherein you might have been treated, I shall use the Compendious One of now laying before you, only Three ASSERTIONS.
Assertion I. There are sad Signs of a Sinful Sleep too generally to be found upon us.
Indeed, Security will be the Epidemical Disease of our days; and the Older the world is, perhaps it will be the Sleepier; or more like what it was, In the days of No•h. They are the pathetical Exclamations of Your and My Father, in a Latin Treatise well known among the Churches of God, Ubi •ides H••inam Christi N•men pro•i•enti•••? Ubi Sancta, Adve•tus Dmini Expectati? Ubi deique prisca Christianorum Vigilantia, suspiri, Lacrymae? Nonne propheti […] est, Morante Spensa itarunt Dnes: H M du alte Conspitum! I see the very Character of our Time; The watchings, the Sighs, the Tears of the primitive Christians are little imitated, Alas there is a Deep Seep upon the World! Now, 'twill be well, if there do not grow upon us e causes of such Lamentations; Or