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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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This is our Hedge, and this to be the Regard of our Hedge.
III. What shall we do, when a Gap is made in our Hedge? Mind, See, Shun the Thing•, that make the Gap; When th•se t•ings are Understood and Avoided, our Hedge, will still be Flourishing.
But what things are they, that lay us open to many Romes? In one […]; •ur Sins against our […] Kee•er. It is our not keeping […] H•dge, that is chastised with His […] ⟨p. 26⟩up of Ours. What things are they that compose our Hedge? Not our Castles, not our Frigates, not our Numbers, 'tis said, in Prov. 18.11. The Rich mans Wealth is an H•gh Wall in his own Conceit; and it is but in Conceit! No 'tis the Favour of God, which gives us, as our Shield, so our Hedge. So then, our Hedge is demolished, by any thing, by every thing, that shall with-draw from us, the Favour of our God: and there is no such mischievous Thing, but our Sin against Him. We are sometimes ready to Expostulate with our God, as in Psal 80.1•2. Why hast Thou broken down our Hedges? But He may Reply upon us, as in Jer. 2.17. Hast thou not procured This unto thy self, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God? Or as in