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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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Minding, did I say? But that must be ⟨p. 43⟩with a Disposition to Mending, of what is thus Decaying in our Hedge. I remember a Proverb, in Prov. 15.19. The way of the Slothful is as an Hedge of Thorns. Many times, when we should set our selves to Consider the Condition of our Hedge, we are disheartened by the Thorns which are to be Encountered in it! The Fear of being Scratched with Reproaches, or Scratched with Expenses, makes us too Slothful to meddle with it.
Minding, did I say? But that must be ⟨p. 43⟩with a Disposition to Mending, of what is thus Decaying in our Hedge. I remember a Proverb, in Prov. 15.19. The way of the Slothful is as an Hedge of Thorns. Many times, when we should set our selves to Consider the Condition of our Hedge, we are disheartened by the Th•rns which are to be Encountred in it! The Fear of being Scratched with Reproaches, or Scratched with Expences, makes us too Slothful to meddle with it.
But I Renew my Addresses to You, for this piece of Discretion; Let us keep a Watchful Eye; upon Every Spreading Breach, in our Hedge. I remember, a notable Passage, reported in a Jewish History: That a Famous King of Portugal finding himself unable to Sleep in the Night, went and walked on the Top of his Palace; from whence he saw a couple of Wretches throw a Dead Corpse into the House of a poor Jew not far off. The next morning those Wretches, made a clamour about the •ity, that the Jew had Murdered the man who was m•ssing; and the whole People of Jews in the City, had been Massacred, in the Tumult raised on this Occasion, if they had not been rescued by the Justice of the King, who had been an Eye-Witness, how the Plot was managed.