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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.
Winter-Meditations.
It is Written in, JOB XXXVII. VI, VII. He saith to the Snow, be thou upon the Earth; likewise to the Small Rain, & to the great Rain of His Strength. He Sealeth up the Hand of every Man, that all Men may know his Work.
That most Laborious and most Imitable Minister of the Gospel, the Apostle Paul, after he had been Travelling on the Designs of the Gospel all the Summer long, had some affairs of the Gospel to manage in the Winter too. Speaking about a City of Thrace, he said, in Tit. 3. 12. I have determined there to winter: and accordingly in the Acts of the Apostles, we find this famous Doctor of the Gentiles once abode three months in Greece, after he had given much Exhortation to the People as he went along. It seems the Service of the Lord Jesus ⟨p. 2⟩Christ, and of His Gospel, was not in the Three Months of the Winter, to be laid aside.
THat most Laborious and most Imitable Minister of the Gospel, the Apostle Paul, after he had been Travelling on the Designs of the Gospel all the Summer long, had some affairs of the Gospel to manage in the Winter too. Speaking about a City of Thrace, he said, in