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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.
Fifthly. Were we not Asleep, should w• please our selves, with our Fine, Gay, Romantic Dreams, as we too often do? It is used as a Similitude, in Isa. 29.8. An Hungry man ⟨p. 42⟩Dreameth, and beh•ld He Eateth, but he awaketh and his […]. Have •e no such Dreams, in our […]? 'Tis but a Dream, for us to imagine, That the Temple of the Lord must needs also have the […] •f the Lord, alth•' there be […] Defiling thereof. 'Tis but a Dream for us to imagine, That there can be nothing still defecti•• in our Church-Constitution, to render us […] as an Army with Banners, and that after all our Attainments, we must not still press on. 'Tis but a Dream for us to imagine, That we may comfortably get through our Difficulties, without Returning to the Lord, that has been smiting of us. We Dream, if we imagine, That if the World bec•me our God, it shall n•t soon become our Grief; or, that we shall not find Vanities and Vexations in all Te• rene Dependencies. And yet have we not been swarming full of these Dreams? Our God may say unto us, O How Long shall your vain Thoughts L•dge within you.
Fifthly. Were we not Asleep, should w• please our selves, with our Fine, Gay, Romantic Dreams, as we too often do? It is used as a Similitude, in Isa. 29.8. An Hungry man ⟨p. 42⟩Dreameth, and beh•ld He E•teth, but he awaketh and his 〈…〉. Have e no such Dreams, in our ? 'Tis but a Dream, for us to imagine, That the Temple of the Lord must needs also have the f the Lord, alth' there be Defiling thereof. 'Tis but a Dream for us to imagine, That there can be nothing still defecti in our Church-Constitution, to render us as an Army with Banners, and that after all our Attainments, we must not still press on. 'Tis but a Dream for us to imagine, That we may comfortably get through our Difficulties, without Returning to the Lord, that has been smiting of us. We Dream, if we imagine, That if the World becme our God, it shall nt soon become our Grief; or, that we shall not find Vanities and Vexations in all Te rene Dependencies. And yet have we not been swarming full of these Dreams? Our God may say unto us, O How Long shall your vain Thoughts Ldge within you.