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The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurred, first…The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurr'd, first…
The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurred, first in the protections, and then in the afflictions, of New-England. : With a representation of certain matters calling for the singular attention of that country. Made at Boston-lecture, in the audience of the great and General Assembly of the province of the Massachusett-Bay, June 7. 1694. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines from Samuel]The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurr'd, first in the protections, and then in the afflictions, of New-England. : With a representation of certain matters calling for the singular attention of that country. Made at Boston-lecture, in the audience of the great and General Assembly of the province of the Massachusett-Bay, June 7. 1694. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines from Samuel]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1694
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Jeremiah and Ezekiel were contemporaries in several Countries; and such was their work, that both of them needed the Encouragement of a Contemporary Prophet. Indeed▪ That a Testimony for God, may be Effectually Delivered and Entertained, there had need be more than One, concurring to the Testimony. But now Ezekiel seems to be, both more Glorious in his Visions, and more Terrible in his Threatenings, than Jeremiah; and both of those ▪ as well Terrible Threatenings, as Glorious Visions, do notably Occur, in the Chapter now before us.
Ieremiah and Ezekiel were contemporaries in several Countrys; and such was their work, that both of them needed the Encouragement of a Contemporary Prophet. Indeed▪ That a Testimony for God, may be Effectually Delivered and Entertained, there had need be more than One, concurring to the Testimony. But now Ezekiel seems to be, both more Glorious in his Visions, and more Terrible in his Threatenings, than Ieremiah; and both of thos• ▪ as well Terrible Threatenings, as Glorious Visions, do notably Occur, in the Chapter now before us.
I Remember, Nazianzen calls our Ezekiel, A Beholder of Great thing• ▪ but •••e-thinks, ⟨p. 7⟩he is in our Context here, A Beholder of Sad things. For Burning Dross in a Furnace, is here made the Type of the Consuming and Fiery Desolations, that were coming upon a Professing People of God. Referring hereunto, behold an Horrid Mirror here set before us.
I Remember, Nazianzen calls our Ezekiel, A Beholder of Great thing• but e-thinks,