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The faith of the fathers. Or, The articles of the true religion, all of…
The faith of the fathers. Or, The articles of the true religion, all of them exhibited in the express words of the Old Testament. Partly, to confirm those who do possess that religion of God, and His Messiah. But chiefly, to engage the Jewish nation, unto the religion of their patriarchs; and, bring down the hearts of the fathers into the children, and the disobedient unto the wisdom of the just; and so, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines of quotation]
printed by B. Green, 1699
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.
Q. Were the Destroyers of the Jews, to make one of their Solemn Feasts, the Season, Occasion, and Advantage of their Destruction?
A. Yes. It is written, Psal. 69.22. Let their Table become a Snare before them, and that which should have been for their Welfare, let it become a Trap.
Q. Were the Destroyers of the Jews, to be partly ⟨p. 20⟩Three Factions among themselves, horribly ••eying on one another, and partly the Caesar, whom they would call their King?
A. Yes. It is written, Zech. 11.6 8. Lo, I will deliver the men, every one into his Neighbours Hand, and into the Hand of his King, and they shall Smite the Land; Three Shepherds also I cut off in one Month; and my Soul loathed them, and their Soul also abhorred me.