N00499:93
Optanda. Good men described, and good things propounded. A serious consideration of two very…
Optanda. Good men described, and good things propounded. A serious consideration of two very important cases. I. What should be our spirits, and II. What should be our studies, that so all things may go well among us. / By Cotton Mather. ; In two sermons; whereof one, was preached unto the governor, and General Court, of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England; at their first session: June 9. 1692. ; Published by authority[.]Optanda. Good men described, and good things propounded. A serious consideration of two very important cases. I. What should be our spirits, and II. What should be our studies, that so all things may go well among us. / By Cotton Mather. ; In two sermons; whereof one, was preached unto the governour, and General Court, of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England; at their first session: June 9. 1692. ; Published by authority[.]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1692
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THIS would be at all Times our security; but NOW more peculiarly. I can with Good assurance forewarn you of a FLOOD, an Horrible! Yea, a HERY FLOOD, coming apace upon a sinful world. Now Particular Churches of the Lord Jesus Christ, are like to be ⟨p. 79⟩the Arks for safety: in the day of that Overflowing Scourge. I Know not what to say of a Story which we have, that, In the Primitive Times a terrible Earthquake befell a great City, wherein all the Houses fell, Except those whereon an Eminent Person then saw an Angel writing those words CHRIST WITH US. But this I know, That the way for a people to escape falling in that Horrendous Earthquake, which is now begun upon the Nations, is to obtain the favour of, CHRIST WITH US; Then may we sing, We will not fear, tho the earth be removed and the mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea. And this I know; That the way for us to have, CHRIST WITH US, in this Overturning Earthquake, is to have and own as much as we can, the Ordinances of an Evangelical Church-State among us; Those Evangelical Things are the Things that cannot be shaken.
THIS would be at all Times our security; but NOW more peculiarly. I can with Good assurance forewarn you of a FLOOD, an Horrible! Yea, a HERY FLOOD, coming apace upon a sinful world. Now Particular Churches of the Lord Jesus Christ, are like to be ⟨p. 79⟩the Arks for safety: in the day of that Overflowing Scourge. I Know not what to say of a Story which we have, that, In the Primitive Times a terrible Earthquake befel a great City, wherein all the Houses fell, Except those whereon an Eminent Person then saw an Angel writing those words CHRIST WITH US. But this I know, That the way for a people to escape falling in that Horrendous Earthquake, which is now begun upon the Nations, is to obtain the favour of, CHRIST WITH US; Then may we sing, We will not fear, tho the earth be removed and the mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea. And this I know; That the way for us to have, CHRIST WITH US, in this Overturning Earthquake, is to have and own as much as we can, the Ordinances of an Evangelical Church-State among us; Those Evangelical Things are the Things that cannot be shaken.