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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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What need I say more? But that the Hedge is ruined by all Unfruitfulness. When a Vineyard of our God, brings forth Wild Grapes; What follows? In Isa. 5.5. I will take away the Hedge thereof, and it shall be Eaten up; I will break down the Wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down. Better Fruits, than those yielded by the Wild Heathen, are Expected from them, who have […] Hedge of God about them. Is there among ⟨p. 34⟩us, that Unrighteousness, that Fraudulence, that False-speaking, that Contempt of Superiors, that want of Good Nurture, that Sleight of them that have the Cure of Souls, which the very Heathen have accounted Criminal? Nay, If there be not among us, an abundance of those Fruits, which are to the Praise of God; Then as David said once, In Vain have I kept all that this Fellow hath in the Wilderness; even so, our God will say, In Vain have I made an Hedge, about such a People in a Wilderness; what will signify an Hedge about such a Barren Soil?
What need I say more? But that the Hedge is ruined by all Unfruitfulness. When a Vineyard of our God, brings forth Wild Grapes; What follows? In Isa. 5.5. I will take away the Hedge thereof, and it shall be Eaten up; I will break down the Wall thereof, and it shall be troden down. Better Fruits, than those yielded by the Wild Heathen, are Expected from them, who have 〈…〉 Hedge of God about them. Is there among ⟨p. 34⟩us, that Unrighteousness, that Fraudulence, that False-speaking, that Contempt of Superiours, that want of Good Nurture, that Sleight of them that have the Cure of Souls, which the very Heathen have accounted Criminal? Nay, If there be not among us, an abundance of those Fruits, which are to the Praise of God; Then as David said once, In Vain have I kept all that this Fellow hath in the Wilderness; even so, our God will say, In Vain have I made an Hedge, about such a People in a Wilderness; what will signify an Hedge about such a Barren Soyl?