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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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Have we not had our Successive Days of Temptation, relating to the posture of things in the Common Wealth? Sometimes, ••e contestations about the Negative, have made us too nigh the Denying of Reason to one another. Sometimes the measures of Compliance with Demands from the other side of the Water, have Occasioned those Heats among us, which we cannot justify. The Unsettlements that we have had since the Revolution, have th•y not rendered us, like the Sea, which cannot rest, whose Waters cast up Mire & Mud? And how many Days of Temptation have been Successively in this and that Plantation of our Wilderness? One while, the Rebuilding and Removing of Meeting-houses, ha's unfitted the Neighbours, for Lifting up pure Hands without Wrath together in those Houses. One while the Enclosing of Commons, hath made Neighbours, that should have been like Sheep, to Bite and […] one another. One while, the Disposal of little matters, in our Militia, ha's made us e'•e ⟨p. 15⟩ready to fall upon one another with Force of Arms. I might add; There Scarce ever was any One Great Man Engaged much in the Service of this People, but the People have at some time or other, made it an Extraordinary Day of Temptation for that man. And sometimes, little Piques between some Leading men in a place, have mislead all the Neighbours far and near into most unaccountable Party-making. Alas, How many Massahs, and Meribahs, have we had in our Wilderness!
Have we not had our Successive Dayes of Temptation, relating to the posture of things in the Common Wealth? Sometimes, ••e contestations about the Negative, have made us too nigh the Denying of Reason to one another. Sometimes the measures of Compliance with Demands from the other side of the Water, have Occasioned those Heats among us, which we cannot justify. The Unsettlements that we have had since the Revolution, have th•y not rendred us, like the Sea, which cannot rest, whose Waters cast up Mire & Mud? And how many Dayes of Temptation have been Successively in this and that Plantation of our Wilderness? One while, the Rebuilding and Removing of Meeting-houses, ha's unfitted the Neighbours, for Lifting up pure Hands without Wrath together in those Houses. One while the Enclosing of Commons, hath made Neighbours, that should have been like Sheep, to Bite and one another. One while, the Disposal of little matters, in our Militia, ha's made us e'e