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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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From another Person, I have almost undone my Family to Serve this People at home and abroad, but they take little notice of it! From a Third Person, Day and Night have seen, Heaven and Earth have known, how faithfully I have Laboured many years to do this People Good, and yet they do nothing but Stone […] for it! Never did a Congregation in a Wilderness, abuse their Moses's, but they direfully broke their Hedges by doing of it.
From another Person, I have almost undone my Family to Serve this People at home and abroad, but they take little notice of it! From a Thi•d Person, Day and Night have seen, Heaven and Earth have known, how faithfully I have Laboured many years to do this People Good, and yet they do nothing but Stone 〈…〉 for it! Never did a Congregation in a Wilderness, abuse their Moses's, but they direfully broke their Hedges by doing of it.
But All Sins do thi• Damage, Morally and Meritoriously. Our Sins are those Accursed Things, which by producing of Breaches in our Hedge, do prove the T••ublers of ou• Land. Would we have our W•ll undisturbed? There are then certain Heads, I mean Hearts, to be thrown over our Wall; briefly, Forego, and Cast off our Sins which do Separate, as with an High-W•ll between God and us.
But All Sins do thi• Damage, Morally and Meritoriously. Our Sins are those Accursed Things, which by producing of Breaches in our Hedge, do p•ove the T••ublers of ou• Land. Would we have our W•ll undisturbed? There are then certain Heads, I mean Hearts, to be thrown over our Wall; briefly, Forego, and Cast off our Sins which do Separate, as with an High-Wll between God and us.