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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.
And this is the Doctrine, which I am now to insist upon; I wish you had a more able Barnabas, to insist upon it. My Doctrine, it may drop as the Rain; as the Sweet, and Small Rain from a Cloud, that has a Rainbow brightening of it. We may see Cloudy Times; Yea, we may apprehend such a Flood of Calamity, as will carry all before it; yet now, O People of God; You are a People in Covenant with Him; A Reliance on your Sacrificed Saviour, Secures your Title to His Covenant. O Now Look up to your dear Saviour. See, He appears to you, in your Cloudy Times, with a Rainbow about His Head. He declares unto you, That He will Remember His Covenant; He has not Forgotten to be Gracious. You shall not be Overwhelmed; The Evil Things, which threaten you, shall not be too hard for you. You shall, you shall be Gloriously Delivered.
And this is the Doctrine, which I am now to insist upon; I wish you had a more able Barnabas, to insist upon it. My Doctrine, it may drop as the Rain; as the Sweet, and Small Rain from a Cloud, that has a Rainbow brightning of it. We may see Cloudy Times; Yea, we may apprehend such a Flood of Calamity, as will carry all before it; yet now, O People of God; You are a People in Covenant with Him; A Reliance on your Sacrificed Saviour, Secures your Title to His Covenant. O Now Look up to your dear Saviour. See, He appears to you, in your Cloudy Times, with a Rainbow about His Head. He declares unto you, That He will Remember His Covenant; He has not Forgotten to be Gracious. You shall not be Overwhelmed; The Evil Things, which threaten you, shall not be too hard for you. You shall, you shall be Gloriously Delivered.
I. In the first Place, I will show the Rainbow about the Head of a Saviour, unto every Particular Believer on that Faithful Saviour. My Friend, Apply the Glorious Rainbow, to thy own Particular Condition; Thy Saviour invites thee to do so. I will venture to lay this down, as a Rule of Application. The Promises which belong to the whole Church of God, are the Portion of every Particular Believer, and he is ⟨p. 41⟩welcome to make use of them, as far as ever he can find his own Case adapted in them. According to this Golden Rule of Faith, and of Fellowship, I now say; Believer; Dost thou not see Cloudy Times? I know, thou dost: There is no Believer, but what has his Times of Darkness: No Child of Light, but what sometimes Walks in Darkness, and sees no Light. 'Tis often, often the Case of every Believer;