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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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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?
What a Day of Temptation, was it, when a Flood of Antin•mian and Familistical Opinions, cast out by the Dragon, had like to have Swallowed up the Church Fled into this Desart, 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?
What • Day of Temptation, was it, when the Controversy ab••t the Extent of Baptism, and of Church Watch, was in its warmest Agitation; and Scandalous Divisions thereupon arose between Synodalians and Antisynodists: Wherein we have been too like, and it may be too unlike Children, while we have been contending about the Covenant of our Children?
What • Day of Tempta•ion, was it, when the Controversy ab••t the Extent of Baptism, and of Church Wa•ch, was in its warmest Agitation; and Scandalous Divisions thereupon arose between Synodalians and Antisynodists: Wherein we have been too like, and it may be too unlike Children, while we have been contending about the Covenant of our Children?