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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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There are Some Sins that Naturally ▪ and Necessarily prejudice our Hedge; those are, the […] Usages of them, that God hath most eminently placed there. We find, concerning our Days, in 2 Tim. 3.1, 2. […] Times shall come, and men shall w•nt […] about them, to keep off […] Injuries; why so? For, Men shall […]. Ingratitude unto useful ••pmen, ⟨p. 27⟩leaves a People, Friendless, and that is to be Hedge•less within a little while. The Benefactors of an Ungrateful and Reproachful Generation, do at last frequently grow weary of Serving their Generation, and Resolve, I will not be an Healer, or an Hedger to such a People! Such a People will at length see, that the Vengeance of God, will deprive them of almost all their Accomplished men, in all orders; and as for the Few that shall be left, either by some Enchantment there shall be an Incurable Alienation between Them and their People; or else they will be under Invincible Discouragements to do any more for a People, who when they have done their best, will but Revile them for it. What if there sho••d any where be a Country of professed Christians, among whom, not only Neglect but Cruel Hatred and Slander shall be the certain Country-Pay, of every Public Servant; and among whom it shall be observed, That no man, though the Holiest and Exactest Liver in the World, shall preserve a Good Name, after he ha's been a Public Servant! I beseech you, what cens••e would the true Spirit of Christianity pas• upon such a Country? It is by the Pagans themselves, mentioned as the Brand upon Old Egypt, •t ⟨p. 28⟩was, Loquax et Ingeniosa, in Contumeliam Prefectorum provincia; si quis fortè vitaverit culpam, Contumeliam non eff git: In plainer New-English, It was a Province out of measure Talkative and Ingenious, for the Vilifying of its Public Servants; let a man be never so free from Fault, he should not scape free of Blame, among them. I now demand, what Men, that were not more than Men, would offer to stand in the Hedge, for such a Nation? And yet if our Hedge be not made of Men, we have none at all. Or, what were like to become of a People, when once there are those Complaints daily made, in the Ears, of the Lord God of Sabaoth, against them, from one Person, I have Exposed my Life in the High Places of the Field, for this People, but they injuriously Defraud me of my wages!