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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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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, ⟨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 Mirrour here set before us.
F••st, A Catalogue of their Sins, is offered. The Ordinances of God were despised among them, and the Sabbaths of God profaned. They were a very Ungoverned sort of People, and much given to Oppressing of one another. Bloodguiltiness lay upon the Land; Adulterous and Incestuous, and most Abominable Uncleannesses were Committed in it.
F••st, A Catalogue of their Sins, is offered. The Ordinances of God were dispised among them, and the Sabbaths of God profaned. They were a very Ungoverned sort of People, and much given to Oppressing of one another. Bloodguiltiness lay upon the Land; Adulterous and Incestuous, and most Abominable Uncleannesses were Committed in it.