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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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There is Especially One Thing, wherein much Fasting and Prayer, would be of singular Significancy to Repair us. All our ⟨p. 63⟩Breaches would be Repaired, if the Rising Generation among us, were more generally Converted unto God. I beseech you, in the fear of God, Consider, what I say! The Impiety and Impenitence of the Young People throughout our Land, is, that Wound of all our Hedges, which hath, of all, the dismallest Aspect upon us It would give us a New Prospect of Comfort, in all our Concerns, if we did in Good Earnest prosecute, an Expedient, which ha's been sometimes Proposed and Received among the Ministers of God. Solemn DAYS of Prayer with Fasting, Celebrated in our Churches, to Implore the Grace of God, for the Rising Generation, would probably be of Ble••ed Consequence, for the Turning of our Young People unto the God of our Fathers. The more there is this way ascribed unto Grace, the more is the Grace of God, like to be Communicated; and there is in this way, a Natural and a Plentiful Tendency, to awaken our Unconverted Youth, unto a Sense of their Everlasting Interests; which, were it generally Accomplished, a Remarkable Reformation, were therein Effected.
There is Especially One Thing, wherein much Fasting and Prayer, would be of •ingular Significancy to Repair us. All our ⟨p. 63⟩Breaches would be R•paired, if the Rising Generation among us, were more generally Converted unto God. I beseech you, in the fear of God, Consider, what I say! The Impiety and Impenitence of the Young People throughout our Land, is, that Wound of all our Hedges, which hath, of all, the dismallest Aspect upon us It would giv• us a New Prospect of Comfort, in all our Concerns, if we did in Good Earnest prosecute, an Expedient, which ha's been sometimes Proposed and Received among the Ministers of God. Solemn DAYES of Prayer with Fasting, Celebrated in our Churches, to Implore the Grace of God, for the Rising Generation, would probably be of Ble••ed Consequence, for the Turning of our Young People unto the God of our Fathers. The more there is this way ascribed unto Grace, the more is the Grace of God, like to be Communicated; and there is in this way, a Natural and a Plentiful Tendency, to awaken our Unconverted Youth, unto a Sense of their Everlasting Interests; which, were it generally Accomplished, a Remarkable Reformation, were therein Effected.