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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.
II. I am now to tell you, What a Messenger [Excuse and Indulge me if I make Reprisals of the Term, A Messenger] of Happy Tidings, the Rainbow about the Head of the Saviour, is unto the Church in general, unto the whole Church of the Living God upon Earth.
The Covenant of God, for the Continuance of His Church in this World, and its Fruition of Blessedness in a New World; this was included in ⟨p. 49⟩the Covenant made with our Patriarch after the Flood. Our Holy God never gave the Rainbow for a Token, that He would preserve a World, only to be a Rendezvous of Traitors & Rebels: a Field for none but Wicked People to graze upon. The Preservation of the World, is, that so our Saviour may have an Elect People here Prepared for Him, and that anon there may come on a Revolution wherein the Whole Earth shall be filled with that People, and His Kingdom. You should Read this Glorious Thing written on the Rainbow with Capitals! And hence this Covenant of God, is Engrossed in those Terms; Isa. LIV. 9, 10. This is as the Waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn, that the Waters of Noah should no more go ever the Earth, so— my Kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the Covenant of my Peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. We are fallen into Cloudy Times; and, The Floods have Lifted up, O Lord, the Floods have Lifted up their […]; the Floods lift up their Waves. But we have a Lord with a Rainbow about His Head; and this our Lord is mightier than the mighty Waves of the Sea. You find me using some Expressions in the XCIII Psalm. I will go on, and give you a very Good Gloss on the last verse of that Psalm, which I find in a Late Version of it.
The Covenant of God, for the Continuance of His Church in this World, and its Fruition of Blessedness in a New World; this was included in ⟨p. 49⟩the Covenant made with our Patriarch after the Flood. Our Holy God never gave the Rainbow for a Token, that He would preserve a World, only to be a Rendezvouz of Traitors & Rebels: a Field for none but Wicked People to graze upon. The Preservation of the World, is, that so our Saviour may have an Elect People here Prepared for Him, and that anon there may come on a Revolution wherein the Whole Earth shall be filled with that People, and His Kingdom. You should Read this Glorious Thing written on the Rainbow with Capitals! And hence this Covenant of God, is Engrossed in those Terms;