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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.
'Tis, as I remember, Polydore Virgil who relates, that when Math••dis was, during the Depth of Winter, […], in Oxford, She arrayed her self and her followers all in white, the colour of the Snow upon the Ground, and by the Advantage of that Colour escaped through' the Besiegers unto a place of Safety. That which I desire, is, a free passage for the Truths, and the Ways, and the Works of God, into the minds of my Neighbours; and I have therefore taken the Advantage of putting a Winter Complexion upon them; I have Clothed them in the Colours of the Winter. And in this ESSAY, I have after a sort Moralized the Fable of Antiphanes, That there is in a certain Scythian Region such a Frost, that the Words uttered in the Winter there Congeal so as to be not heard until the Summer following shall dissolve them: for 'twas at Boston-Lecture, in the Month of December last, that the Heads of these Winter-Meditations, were first Preached; and it is now in the Month of November following that they are Printed, on the same Designs of Religion, that gave them their Original.
'Tis, as I remember, Polydore Virgil who relates, that when Math••dis was, during the Depth of Winter, 〈…〉, in Oxford, She arrayed her self and her followers all in white, the colour of the Snow upon the Ground, and by the Advantage of that Colour escaped thro' the Besiegers unto a place of Safety. That which I desire, is, a free passage for the Truths, and the Ways, and the Works of God, into the minds of my Neighbours; and I have therefore taken the Advantage of putting a Winter Complexion upon them; I have Clothed them in the Colours of the Winter. And in this ESSAY, I have after a sort Moralized the Fable of Antiphanes, That there is in a certain Scythian Region such a Frost, that the Words uttered in the Winter there Congele so as to be not heard until the Summer following shall dissolve them: for 'twas at Boston-Lecture, in the Month of December last, that the Heads of these Winter-Meditations, were first Preached; and it is now in the Month of November following that they are Printed, on the same Designs of Religion, that gave them their Original.