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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.
Had it not been for this Word, the Church had been drowned by the Flood, which the Dragon cast out of his Mouth in the Arian Heresies; when, The World Sighed, that it saw it self become almost entirely Arian. Had it not been for this Word, the Church had been drowned in the Flood of the Romish Apostasy, at the Latter end of the Fifteenth Century; when there were left One Little Flock of Taborites in their Caves; and these poor Speculani sent four Agents to the several points of the Compass, to find, if it were possible, any pure Church in the World; and they all returned with a Sorrowful Report, That there was none to be met withal. Were it not for this Word, The Grand Assyrian of this Day would be Master of Europe, and the Religion of Christ be every where Little better of it, than it is in his own Bloody Dominions. But O thou Monster of Baseness, The Daughter of Zion despises thee. And, O thou Troubler of the Nations, A Few Months more shall bring thee down to the Sides of the Pit, and it shall be said by them that Consider thee, Is this the man that shook the Kingdoms of the Earth!
Had it not been for this Word, the Church had been drown'd by the Flood, which the Dragon cast out of his Mouth in the Arian Haeresies; when, The World Sigh'd, that it saw it self become almost entirely Arian. Had it not been for this Word, the Church had been drown'd in the Flood of the Romish Apostasy, at the Latter end of the Fifteenth Century; when there were left One Little Flock of Taborites in their Caves; and these poor Speculani sent four Agents to the several points of the Compass, to find, if it were possible, any pure Church in the World; and they all return'd with a Sorrowful Report, That there was none to be met withal. Were it not for this Word, The Grand Assyrian of this Day would be Master of Europe, and the Religion of Christ be every where Little better of it, than it is in his own Bloody Dominions. But O thou Monster of Baseness, The Daughter of Zion despises thee. And, O thou Troubler of the Nations, A Few Months more shall bring thee down to the Sides of the Pit, and it shall be said by them that Consider thee, Is this the man that shook the Kingdoms of the Earth!
In short▪ The Church of our Saviour must Our live all the Attempts of Earth and Hell against it. The Story of the Church Surviving