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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.
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Thirdly. The Church can't be totally Drowned: The World is; But the Flood of Wickedness, which overspreads the Whole World, is going off. We have a sad Account of this wretched World, 1 Joh. V. 19. The whole World lies in Wickedness. Alas, the Whole World is under that Flood, which we find before the Old Flood, and the Cause of it; we ought with unutterable Anguish, to make the Complaint, Behold, the Earth is corrupt before God, and all Flesh has corrupted his way upon the Earth. A Flood of wickedness, has laid Mankind groaning under the Waters. The Exceptions to the Epidemical, the Universal Wickedness of Mankind, are so very few, that we may still Complain, They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy! But, my Brethren; It shall not always be so. The Saviour of Mankind shows Himself unto us with a Rainbow about His Head. It is to inform us, That the Flood of Wickedness in which the World is at this Day buried, shall one day be rolled off. Of the Angel coming down from Heaven with a Rainbow ⟨p. 57⟩on His Head, we read, He sets His Right Foot on the Sea, and His Left Foot on the Earth. Our Saviour will come to take possession both of the Sea, and of the Earth. He will possess Himself of Mankind, both on the Sea, and on the Earth. He will assert His Dominion both on the Sea, and on the Earth. He will Chain up the Deceiver of the Nations. But, How Long, O Lord, Holy and True, How Long ere thou So come down unto us! There is a Day a coming in which, according to the ancient Prophecies; Psal. XXII. 27. All the Ends of the World shall turn unto the Lord. And, Psal. LXXXVI. 9. All Nations whom thou hast made, shall come and Worship before thee, O Lord, and shall Glorify thy Name. Most certainly, There will come a Day when there shall be more Godly People, than there are now Wicked People in the World. I am certain, God will one day destroy them that Corrupt the Earth; We shall see an Earth wherein shall dwell Righteousness; it shall be filled with Righteous ones. The very first Time, that an Hallelujah occurs in the Sacred Scriptures, it is on this occasion; Psal. CIV. 35. Let the Sinners be consumed out of the Earth, and let the wicked be no more. Hallelujah. There will come a Time, when that Great Hallelujah shall be heard in the World!