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Nehemiah. A brief essay on divine consolations, how great they are; and how great…
Nehemiah. A brief essay on divine consolations, how great they are; and how great the regards to be paid unto them, : with an application thereof to some frequent cases; especially, the death of relatives. : Offered, at the lecture in Boston. 30 d. 9 m. 1710. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines of quotations]
printed by Bartholomew Green, 1710
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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.
You are furnished with the Higher Principle of RELIGION; and you are acquainted with the Great Consolations of GOD, which you know how to apply on the proper occasions. These will do.
As the Chemists tell us, That Nature by Length of Time changes one Metal into another; but their Skill and Boast is to Accelerate the Endeavours of Nature, and Hasten at Once the Effect, which else ⟨image ?⟩would have been a very long while producing. Thus, Religion will with much more certainty at Once bring about that Victory over Sorrow, and fix the Mind in that Golden Temper, which else would not be so soon accomplished.
As the Chymists tell us, That Nature by Length of Time changes one Metal into another; but their Skill and Boast is to Accelerate the Endeavours of Nature, and Hasten at Once the Effect, which else ⟨image ?⟩would have been a very long while producing. Thus, Religion will with much more certainty at Once bring about that Victory over Sorrow, and fix the Mind in that Golden Temper, which else would not be so soon accomplished.
For your Assistance in that Work of Christianity, You have called for a Copy of my Essay; which now wears a Name, that may signify, The Consolations of GOD; and it was my Duty to let it wait upon you.
For your Assistence in that Work of Christianity, You have called for a Copy of my Essay; which now wears a Name, that may signify, The Consolations of GOD; and it was my Duty to let it wait upon you.