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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.
Even so, if we do no more than what is to be found in the Old Way of Returning to God, prescribed in His Word, yet i• there be any one Indifferent and Expedient circumstance of Explicitness, dictated by the very Light of Nature, for the better doing of it, •ot used heretofore, they that are Settled on ••eir Lees, will cry out A New Practice. For Churches to Renew their Covenant, has been with Ignorance Enough reproached as, A New Practice; and so perhaps 'twill be for Church•• by Acts of their own, to Explain the Cove•••• which they have Renewed. It may be […] ▪ But I may tell you, Tis a New Thing for ••ople to Awake out of their degeneracies: thro' […] Time and the Times of the Antichristian Apostasy, it has been so; So it was before; •o it will be still. But, let us fortify ourselves against such little objections, and about, Wa••ing, say, If this be to be Vile, We will be yet more […]; and having been Roused up from the •ouchant posture of our Souls, let us be Lions which do not for any Turn away. I bespeak you […] the words of the Apostle, 1. Thes. 5.6. •et us not Sleep as do others, but let us watch. Wherefore.
Even so, if we do no more than what is to be found in the Old Way of Returning to God, praescribed in His Word, yet i• there be any one Indifferent and Expedient circumstance of Explicitness, dictated by the very Light of Nature, for the better doing of it, •ot used heretofore, they that are Settled on ••eir Lees, will cry out A New Practice. For Churches to Renew their Covenant, has been with Ignorance Enough reproached as, A New Practice; and so perhaps t'will be for Church•• by Acts of their own, to Explain the Cove which they have Renewed. It may be But I may tell you, Tis a New Thing for ople to Awake out of their degeneracies: thro' Time and the Times of the Antichristian Apostacy, it has been so; So it was before; o it will be still. But, let us fortify ourselves gainst such little objections, and about, Waing, say, If this be to be Vile, We will be yet more ; and having been Rowsed up from the ouchant posture of our Souls, let us be Lions hich do not for any Turn away. I bespeak you the words of the Apostle,