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Things for a distressed people to think upon. Offered in the sermon to the…Things for a distress'd people to think upon. Offered in the sermon to the…
Things for a distressed people to think upon. Offered in the sermon to the General Assembly of the province, of the Massachusetts Bay, at the anniversary election. May, 27. 1696. Wherein, I. the condition of the future, as well as the former times, in which we are concerned, is considered. II. A narrative of the late wonderful deliverance, of the King, and the three kingdoms, & all the English dominions, is endeavoured. III. A relation, of no less than seven miracles, within this little while wrought by the Almighty Lord Jesus Christ, for the confirmation of our hopes, that some glorious works, for the welfare of his church, are quickly to be done, is annexed. / By Cotton Mather.Things for a distress'd people to think upon. Offered in the sermon to the General Assembly of the province, of the Massachusetts Bay, at the anniversary election. May, 27. 1696. Wherein, I. the condition of the future, as well as the former times, in which we are concerned, is considered. II. A narrative of the late wonderful deliverance, of the King, and the three kingdoms, & all the English dominions, is endeavoured. III. A relation, of no less than seven miracles, within this little while wrought by the Almighty Lord Jesus Christ, for the confirmation of our hopes, that some glorious works, for the welfare of his church, are quickly to be done, is annexed. / By Cotton Mather.
printed by B. Green for Duncan Campbel, 1696
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, They Fasted on that Day:
Thirdly, They said there, we have Sinned against the Lord. Behold, the Supplication, and, Behold, the Reformation, which this Humiliation was attended withal. The circumstances of it, here specified, that it was, On that Day, and that it was, There, intimate that they were no• willing to Delay, the Work of Repentance any longer: they counted it High Time for them to make thorough work of it, and they would not rise from the place until they had accomplished the work.
There are Three Things, which the Text thus •aid before us, would Awaken us all unto: Three Things which if duly attended, Thrice and Four Times Happy from this Day, will be our Land, which is at this Day. Trembling and Shaking, by the Breaches that God makes upon it. I will not leave my Text, though I do mow call in another Text, for the Application of it, and make, The present State of NEW-ENGLAND, the Text which we shall now insist upon.
There are Three Things, which the Text thus •aid before us, would Awaken us all unto: Three Things which if duely attended, Thrice and Four Times Happy from this Day, will be our Land, which is at this Day. Trembling and Shaking, by the Breaches that God makes upon it. I will not leave my Text, though I do mow call in another Text, for the Application of it, and make, The present State of NEW-ENGLAND, the Text which we shall now insist upon.