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Thoughts for the day of rain. In two essay's
Thoughts for the day of rain. In two essay's: I. The Gospel of the rainbow. In the meditations of piety, on the appearance of the bright clouds, with the bow of God upon them. II. The Saviour with his rainbow. And the covenant which God will remember to his people in the cloudy times that are passing over them. / By Cotton Mather., D.D. ; [Seven lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green, 1712
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The SAVIOUR with His Rainbow. At BOSTON-Lecture. 12. d. 5. m. 1711.
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.
There is an Intimation in it, that there will be Unsearchable Circumstances, Unsearchable Dispensations, ⟨p. 39⟩in His Appearances. And if thou wilt come unto us in Cloudy Times, O Glorious Lord, Thy will be done: Yet, Even so come unto us!
The only Thing that we now Single out for consideration, is that Particular Glory of our Appearing Saviour; A Rainbow was upon his Head. The Rainbow is a well-known Meteor, often beheld, but not with Eyes Devout enough, among us in the Day of Rain. Perhaps, there is nothing in all the Meteorous Kingdom so very Beautiful. Such is the Beauty of the Meteor, that while the Heathen Mythology made it, The Daughter of Wonderment, Cicero makes it a matter of Wonderment that it was not Lifted in the Number of their Gods. Let those declaim on this Beauty, who can fetch a Text from the Son of Sirach, that says, Look on the Rainbow, and Praise Him that made it; very Beautiful it is in the Brightness thereof. That which it becomes us most of all to Ponder, is, That the Sovereign Creator of the World, has in His Wisdom Stamped a Sacramental Character on the Rainbow; He has Instituted the Rainbow, for a Sign, and Seal, of His Covenant with the World. All Christians are apprised of the Signification which the Ninth Chapter of Genesis, has left upon the Rainbow, for our perpetual Consolation; and as our Assurance, that the World shall no more be Drowned, as it was in the Days of Noah. Wherefore, our Saviour appearing to us, with a Rainbow, about His Head, Proposes to Preach this Joyful Doctrine unto us.
The only Thing that we now Single out for consideration, is that Particular Glory of our Appearing Saviour; A Rainbow was upon his Head. The Rainbow is a well-known Meteor, often beheld, but not with Eyes Devout enough, among us in the Day of Rain. Perhaps, there is nothing in all the Meteorous Kingdom so very Beautiful. Such is the Beauty of the Meteor, that while the Heathen Mythology made it, The Daughter of Wonderment, Cicero makes it a matter of Wonderment that it was not Lifted in the Number of their Gods. Let those declaim on this Beauty, who can fetch a Text from the Son of Sirach, that sayes, Look on the Rainbow, and Praise Him that made it; very Beautiful it is in the Brightness thereof. That which it becomes us most of all to Ponder, is, That the Sovereign Creator of the World, has in His Wisdom Stamp'd a Sacramental Character on the Rainbow; He has Instituted the Rainbow, for a Sign, and Seal, of His Covenant with the World. All Christians are apprised of the Signification which the Ninth Chapter of Genesis, has left upon the Rainbow, for our perpetual Consolation; and as our Assurance, that the World shall no more be Drown'd, as it was in the Days of Noah. Wherefore, our Saviour appearing to us, with a Rainbow, about His Head, Proposes to Preach this Joyful Doctrine unto us.