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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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II. If we do not make much of our Hedge, we shall do Nothing to make up any Gap in our Hedge: Wherefore let us have a Great Concern, and an High Value, for those things, which Cover us from Invasions. As there are Thousands of Saints in this Country, who have such an Angelical Guard about them, that what we find spoken of Job, is to be spoken of Them, in Job 1.10. Hast thou not made an Hedge about him? So the whole Country it self ha's been under those Dispensations of God, which have made that Account proper to be given of us, in Math. 21.33. There was a certain Householder, which Planted a Vineyard, and Hedged it round about. Unto what Ruins had we lain open, if our God had not Hedged us, with at least, a Treble Muniment? Now that which I say is, Let us count this Three-fold Hedge, worth our Thanks, worth our Cares, worth our most Expensive Reparations!
II. If we do not make much of our Hedge, we shall do Nothing to make up any Gap in our Hedge: Werefore let us have a Great Concern, and an High Value, for those things, which Cover us from Invasions. As there are Thousands of Saints in this Country, who have such an Angelical Guard about them, that what we find spoken of Iob, is to be spoken of Them, in Iob 1.10. Hast thou not made an Hedge about him? So the whole Country it self ha's been under those Dispensations of God, which have made that Account proper to be given of us, in Math. 21.33. There was a certain Housholder, which Planted a Vineyard, and Hedged it round about. Unto what Ruines had we lain open, if our God had not Hedged us, with at least, a Treble Muniment? Now that which I say is, Let us count this Three-fold Hedge, worth our Thanks, worth our Cares, worth our most Expensive Reparations!
First, A Good Government, ha's been the Hedge of our Land. No Persecutions did Incommode our Civil, or our Sacred Enjoyments, while we had a Royal CHARTER,