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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.
Shall I proceed? We have seen our selves Deprived, not only of Charter •Liberties, but also of English-Liberties, with such Things done to us, as the High Court of Parliament, by their Vote numbered among the Grievances of the Nation. ⟨p. 25⟩Any considerate man, that compares the Prodigious Invasions then made upon all our Interests, with Two Things that have since come to light; the Irish proposals, For the Irish to be settled near New England, to check the growing Independents of that Country; and the Letter to the Pope, engaging to set up the Roman-Catholic Religion in the Plantations of America: cannot but say, That all Things were then under a Dreadful Prospect with us. An Happy REVOLUTION hath Saved us, out of those Distresses; But we have immediately been Distressed with New Disasters, wherein a Righteous God, ha's been Punishing us yet Seven Times more for our Iniquities. The Salvages filled this Land from one end unto the other, with direful outrages, with which they cut off many Hundreds of our Inhabitants, in a Former War; […] now a Later War, wherein the Revolution foun• us Entangled, ha's been consuming us for mor• than Seven years together. Herein, God ha'• been Pouring out the Blood of our Friends; Yea Horrid Stories might be told, of the Barbarous Cruelties, wherewith some of them have bee• butchered, by the Hands of the Barbarians And shall not we, Pour out our Tears upon their Graves?
Shall I proceed? We have seen our selves Deprived, not only of Charter •Liberties, but also of English-Liberties, with such Things done to us, as the High Court of Parliament, by their Vote numbred among the Grievances of the Nation. ⟨p. 25⟩Any considerate man, that compares the Prodigious Invasions then made upon all our Interests, with Two Things that have since come to light; the Irish proposals, For the Irish to be settled near New England, to check the growing Independants of that Country; and the Letter to the Pope, engaging to set up the Roman-Catholick Religion in the Plantations of America: cannot but say, That all Things were then under a Dreadful Prospect with us. An Happy REVOLUTION hath Saved us, out of those Distresses; But we have immediately been Distressed with New Disasters, wherein a Righteous God, ha's been Punishing us yet Seven Times more for our Iniquities. The Salvages fill'd this Land from one end unto the other, with direfu outrages, with which they cut off many Hundreds of our Inhabitants, in a Former War; now a Later War, wherein the Revolution foun us Entangled, ha's been consuming us for mor than Seven years together. Herein, God ha' been Pouring out the Blood of our Friends; Yea Horrid Stories might be told, of the Barbarou Cruelties, wherewith some of them have bee butchered, by the Hands of the Barbarians And shall not we, Pour out our Tears upon their Graves?