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Winter-meditations directions how to employ the leisure [sic] of the winter for the glory…Winter-meditations directions how to employ the liesure [sic] of the winter for the glory…
Winter-meditations directions how to employ the leisure [sic] of the winter for the glory of God. : Accompanied with reflections, as well historical, as theological, not only upon the circumstances of the winter, but also, upon the notable works of God, both in, creation, and providence: especially those, which more immediately concern every particular man, in the whole course of his life: and upon the religious works, wherewith every man should acknowledge God, in and from the accidents of the winter. / By Cotton Mather. ; With a preface of the Reverend, Mr. John Higginson.Winter-meditations directions how to employ the liesure [sic] of the winter for the glory of God. : Accompanied with reflections, as well historical, as theological, not only upon the circumstances of the winter, but also, upon the notable works of God, both in, creation, and providence: especially those, which more immediately concern every particular man, in the whole course of his life: and upon the religious works, wherewith every man should acknowledge God, in and from the accidents of the winter. / By Cotton Mather. ; With a preface of the Reverend, Mr. John Higginson.
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris over-against the Old-Meeting-House, 1693
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.
It is further observable, the Scripture doth not only treat of the Works of God themselves, but of the Circumstance of Time; not merely as Time is Fluxus Nunc, or duratio rerum, but as its under a Divine Predetermination of the Seasons of Time wherein every Creature doth Exist, and every Event shall come to pass; and therefore it informs us, Acts 17. 26. That, God hath determined the Times appointed before, and that, Eccles. 3. 1. To every thing there is a Season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven; and the Psalmist speaking to God, says, Psal. 74. 16,17. Thou hast made the Summer and the Winter, the Day is thine and the night also is thine: and Moses the Man of God tells us that Seed time, and Harvest, Summer and Winter, and Day and Night shall not cease, until the end of the World, Gen. 8. last. In all which Expressions we are to understand, the Works of God that are done, and the Events of Providence that come to pass in the Appointed Times and Seasons of the Year; as now, In the Winter-time, Job 37. 6,7. God seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know his Work. In the Spring time he Renews the Face of the Earth, Psal. 104. 30. and revives all the Creatures. In the Summer time he Clothes the Earth in its best Array, and gives the Fruitful Seasons; Mat. 6. 30. Acts 14. 17. and then in the Autumn he Crowns the Year with his Goodness, Psal. 65. 11. and brings in the Joy of the Harvest, Isa. 9. 3. Nay the Psalmist further informs us, that ⟨image ?⟩Day unto Day uttereth Speech, and Night unto Night showeth Knowledge,