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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.
Secondly, 'Tis not easy Sleeping on ou• Knees; O therefore Let us be much upon them. In Prayer we do, as we read our Lord Jesus did, Lift up our Eyes; now, Lifted Eye• won't be Sleeping ones. Let us be much […] Prayer; and in every kind of Prayer; Pray••• with all Prayer, by the Spirit, watching there••• to. Pray in Secret, and in Private every […] Pray in more Public, and le•s Public […] of Good Men, as often as you may: […] with Extraordinary Solemnity, when the […] is Extraordinary. Let us not […] Undertaking, or endure any Tribul•••• without making a Prayer upon it. Let […] make a Prayer from, yea, and in, every S••mon, wherewith our God is Admonishing […] us. I would more especially Recommend […] Blessed Bolton's Advice unto us all, That […] Morning we should recount, what particular […] signs we have to manage in the Day Ensuing, […] in our Privacies make our particular p•ayers, […] Gods Blessing thereupon. This would keep yo• from Designs, that would be either Unlawful or Unprosperous. And unto this Advice, […] ⟨image ?⟩would subjoin another; which is, That Ejaculatory Prayers may be continually proceeding from us. Wherever we are, and whatever we do, Let us be Darting up our Petitions or […] Thanksgivings to Heaven, as the Matter •ay Require ▪ I say, Happy is the man that has his Quiv•• full of such Arrows! But in our Prayers, Le• us very much insist upon this Request, That we may be kept Awake. I think, David in one Psalm, does no less than Ten Times make that Prayer, Lord, Quicken me! 'Tis a Prayer that we have cause to make more than Ten Times every week, Lord, Waken us. Let us Pray, as in Psal. 13.3. O Lord, my God, lighten mine Eyes, lest I Sleep the Sleep of […]. And whereas, we have a Keeper, who […] neither Slumber nor Sleep, Let us by […] Prayer Commit our selves unto Him, that we may be kept from Slumbering and Sleeing in our Sins.