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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.
I will proceed Secondly, to set before you, some Articles in the Covenant of Mercy to the Church, which are declared and confirmed unto us, by the Rainbow about the Head of our Merciful Saviour. Be the Times never so Cloudy, and the Floods never so boisterous, never so mountainous, the Church of God, has the Expectations of the Rainbow to Live upon.
They are such as these.
First. The Church cannot be drowned. The Church of God may read that Motto on the Rainbow; Jer. XLVI. 28. I will not make a full end of thee. Our Saviour will always have a Church, yea, a Visible Church, in the World. Tho' it may fly for some Ages into the Valleys of Piedmont, yet even there it shall be Visible. No Flood shall utterly swallow it up. A Number of People visibly Embracing the Truths, and obeying the Laws of the only Saviour, will be always upon the Face of the Earth. We read, Psal. CXXV. 1 Of a Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. I will not say, This ⟨p. 53⟩was a Covenant for the Literal Mount Zion; for this has been Removed; the Hill was dug down, with a vast Labour of three years, in the Days of the Maccabaean Simeon. The Jews on certain Accounts of Policy, dug down their Zion with their own Hands. But, O Church of our Blessed JESUS, Thou art that Mount Zion. The most Ancient of all the Mountains, the most Lasting of all the Hills; Eternally Impregnable! No Flood can roll over the Top of the Holy Hill of Zion. There is a word in the BIBLE, which has been as an Ark for the Church of God, in the most Cloudy and Stormy Ages of it; That word,