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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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But we ought especially to Reflect upon the Errors which we have committed, in the more Critical Days of Temptation which have been upon us; when a special Energy of Satan ha's been driving us, it may be first out of our Wits, and then out of our Way. It is Written concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, He was led into the Wilderness, to be Tempted of the Devil. Truly, the People of our Lord Jesus Christ, Led into this Wilderness, have not only met with a continual Temptation of the Devil here; the Wilderness hath always had Serpents in it; but also we have had in almost every New Lustre of years, a New Assault of Extraordinary Temptation upon us; a more than common Hour and Power of Darkness. Our Hellish Adversary, ha's ever now and then obtained a Permission from the God ⟨p. 13⟩of Heaven, to give some Singular Embarrassment unto our Affairs; whereby our Lusts have been Excited and Exerted, and our Minds have been thrown into the Disorder from whence comes Every evil Work.
But we ought especially to Reflect upon the Errors which we have committed, in the more Critical Dayes of Temptation which have been upon us; when a special Energy of Satan ha's been driving us, it may be first out of our Witts, and then out of our Way. It is Written concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, He was led into the Wilderness, to be Tempted of the Devil. Truly, the People of our Lord Jesus Christ, Led into this Wilderness, have not only met with a continual Temptation of the Devil here; the Wilderness hath alwayes had Serpents in it; but also we have had in almost every New Lustre of years, a New Assault of Extraordinary Temptation upon us; a more than common Hour and Power of Darkness. Our Hellish Adversary, ha's ever now and then obtained a Permission from the God ⟨p. 13⟩of Heaven, to give some Singular Embarassment unto our Affairs; whereby our Lusts have been Excited and Exerted, and our Minds have been thrown into the Disorder from whence comes Every evil Work.
What a Day of Temptation, was it, when a Flood of Antinomian and Familistical Opinions, cast out by the Dragon, had like to have Swallowed up the Church Fled into this Desert, in its Infancy: and a Factious Distinction made between, Men under a Covenant of Works, and Men under a Covenant of Grace, as it were by some Enchantment, insinuated it self into all our Concernments, to the producing of Works wherein there was little enough of Grace discovered?