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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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It is Written,
In EZEK. XXII.30.— I Sought for a MAN among them, that should make up the HEDGE, and stand in the GAP, before me, for the Land, that I should not Destroy it.
The Rest of what is Written in the Verse▪ I will not Now Read unto you, as Wishing and Hoping, that it may Never be fulfilled in our Eyes!
IT was upon the Death of a Great Man among the Ancients▪ that a Famous and Well-spoken Orator, Addressed a General Assembly of the Neighbourhood▪ with an Exclamation to ⟨p. 4⟩this purpose, What shall we do, O Citizens? Our Walls are fallen down? Indeed, the whole World seems at This Day, under the Accomplishment of that Commination; in Is•i. 2.15. The Day of the Lord of Hsts, it shall be upon every Fenced Wall. But such a Dark and such a Black Day, is most particularly come upon Or selves. The Death, which we have seen upon our Fist Generation, Administers unto us, who ae Another, and well if not upon all Accounts Another, Generation, a Mournful Occasion for that Lamentation, Our Walls are Fallen down! The Death which we have therewithal seen Gradually Seizing upon our Precious and Pleasant Things, Administers unto us yet further Occasion for that Lamentation, Our Walls are fallen down! Yea, that our Walls are broken down, we have seen in the doleful and woeful Effects of our own Experience, a most Effectual Demonstration.