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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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Shall I add one thing mo•e? I say then, Observe the Inclinations of Good and Great Men to be Gone. When the Hedge about the People of the Jews was just breaking down, there was a Marvellous Cry which Mortal men overheard audibly uttered among the Angels in the Invisible World, Migremus hinc, or, Let us be gone. Sometimes a People have among them such men, as the Bible calls Angels; Yea, such men as are Angels in Flesh: men that are Disposed like the Angels, Employed like the Angels, the special Darlings of the Angels. Well, it should be observed, Whether there be that Uneasiness in the Minds of such men, which makes them in their more Deliberate and more Supplicating Frames before the God of Heaven, to Wish, Oh! That I had Wings like a Dove, to flee away! When ever such Angels come to be upon the Wing, I tell you, the Hedge is failing horribly. Regard what I say; The Body is an Hedge to the Soul; but when the Soul comes to talk much of Going, of Removing, of Departing, which is the usual Talk of Dying men, 'tis a shr•w'd Symptom, that the Hedge ha'• a […] just Seizing upon it. There are Men, t•at •re the very Soul, and […] ⟨p. 47⟩and when these men shall have their Thoughts all upon Going, the Hedge is mouldering away, you may be sure of it▪
Shall I add one thing mo•e? I say then, Observe the Inclinations of Good and Great Men to be Gone. When the Hedge about the People of the Jews was just breaking down, there was a Marvellous Cry which Mortal men overheard audibly uttered among the Angels in the Invisible World, Migremus hinc, or, Let us be gone. Sometimes a People have among them such men, as the Bible calls Angels; Yea, such men as are Angels in Flesh: men that are Disposed like the Angels, Employ'd like the Angels, the special Darlings of the Angels. Well, it should be observed, Whether there be that Uneasiness in the Minds of such men, which makes them in their more Deliberate and more Supplicating Frames before the God of Heaven, to Wish, Oh! That I had Wings like a Dove, to flee away! When ever such Angels come to be upon the Wing, I tell you, the Hedge is failing horribly. Regard what I say; The Body is an Hedge to the Soul; but when the Soul comes to talk much of Going, of Removing, of Departing, which is the usual Talk of Dying men, 'tis a shrw'd Symptome, that the Hedge ha' a just Siezing upon it. There are Men, tat re the very Soul, and