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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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but is it not now come to that pass in some Congregations, that if their Pastor lay a Dying, there would not be one Meeting of ordinary Believers, that could come together to Fast and Pray for his Life? And now, who is there duly Apprehensive of these Gradual Decays in our Hedge? I have heard it observed, concerning some Towns, among us, through whose Broken Hedge, the Destroying Angels of Sickness, have broken in, and carried off many of the People: The more observant Ministers of those Towns, have asked the Survivors, How many, according to their Account, have Died out of the place, ⟨p. 42⟩in the last Pestilential Months? To which they have Replied, It may be Eight or Ten; but these hav• been able to Surprise them, which showing them, That-some Scores of their F•iends were in those few Months g•ne to the p•ace of Silence. Truly, such Unheeded things usually, are all the calamitous Decays which bef•ll a People, wh•n God is contending with them. Good Things leave us, and no bod• takes an Account, How, or When, they leave us O• such a People it has b•en said, Grey Hairs are he•e and there upon them, and they know it n•t!
but is it not now come to that pass in some Congregations, that if their Pastor lay a Dying, there would not be one Meeting of ordinary Believers, that could come together to Fast and Pray for his Life? And now, who is there duely Apprehensive of these Gradual Decayes in our Hedge? I have heard it observed, concerning some Towns, among us, through whose Broken Hedge, the Destroying Angels of Sickness, have broken in, and carried off many of the People: The more observant Ministers of those Towns, have asked the Surviv•rs, How many, according to their Account, have Dy'd out of the place, ⟨p. 42⟩