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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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Secondly: If we wer• All as One man for the Restoration and the Preservati•• of our Hedge, it would no longer be Impaired. It is here said, I Sought […] MAN among them. Indeed, if all among us were as One […], the Lord would have what He Seeks for. The Wall of Jerusalem went on comfortably, when in Neh. 4.6. All the Wall was joined together, for the People had • Mind to Work. […] when People have a Mind rather to Ra•l, an• Hate, ⟨p. 57⟩and Squeeze one another, and are not for Joining on the Wall, then all goes on Calamitously. In Truth, we have been too much as One man, where we should not have been so. It was Reprehended, in Hos. 6.7. They like Adam, have Transgressed the Covenant. I have met with a Christianized Jew, who ha's given me that sense of it; They as One man, have Transgressed the Covenant. So Unanimous have we been in our Offences against the Institutions of our God! Yea, but now let us become as One man, in Returning to the God, against whom we have Transgressed, and in helping one another to Return. We All have something to do for our Hedge; but O Let it not be said of our Treating, and our Hindering one another, as in Mic. 7.4. The best of them i• as a Briar, the most Upright is Sharper th•n a Thorn-Hedge. If Divisions, Prejudices, Alienations and Animosities, get into our Heart, we shall soon have them, and the ill-frui•• of them, in our Hedge. We have been called upon, Mark those who c•use Divisions; what Mark shall we set upon them? Why, This: They are Hedge-[…] ! Tis remarkably Expressed, in Prov. 25.•8. He tha• hath no Rule over his own Spirit, […] like a City […] is broken […], and without Walls. Even […], An Angry, an