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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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to see, if I could discern any Foot-steps, and Remembrances, of such a Mercy; and, Lo, they were all grown over with Thorns, and Nettles had Covered the Face thereof, and the S•one-Wall thereof is broken down. And, which is m•re sad! In s•me of them Never, in others very hardly built up again. As God Removeth the Candlestick, when we Play or Fight, by the Light of the Candle set up in it, so He is very Hardly Induced to Light it again, in that place, where it hath once been Wantonly, or Frowardly put out. The Ark never did Return, to the same place, from which it was in a way of Judgment Removed!
to see, if I could discern any Foot-steps, and Remembrances, of such a Mercy; and, Lo, they were all grown over with Thorns, and Nettles had Covered the Face thereof, and the S•one-Wall thereof is broken down. And, which is m•re sad! In s•me of them Never, in others very hardly built up again. As God Removeth the Candlestick, when we Play or Fight, by the Light of the Candle set up in it, so He is very Hardly Induced to Light it again, in that place, where it hath once been Wantonly, or Fr•wardly put out. The Ark never did Return, to the same place, from which it was in a way of Iudgment Removed!
THIS is the Sum of what I would now say hereupon. I pray you, For the Lords sake, I pray you, To Observe all Tendencies towards that forlorn State, where-to our Sins are apace carrying of us. It is a most miserable Thing, when a Sic•ly and Cloudy Lassitude of Spirit, shall indispose a People to take Notice, of what may be signified unto them in their own Alterations; and when a People shall Jog on, in a Sottish, a Stupid, an heedless Lethargy of Soul, until they Dy. This Dementation, is the •la•kst