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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.
This is HE, whom the Disciple that Jesus Loved, had His Allowance to Look upon!
But may We also at this Day, be allowed and advanced unto a View of that Glorious One! Yea, O People Highly favoured of the Lord; unto You does the Saviour with a Rainbow about His Head give that Glorious Call; Behold me, Behold me, O my People; Behold, and Believe my Remembrance of my Covenant, in all the Cloudy Times that are passing over you.
We are fallen into a Day, whereof we may say, what we read; Zech. I. 15. It is a Day of Trouble and of Distress, a Day of Clouds and of Thick Darkness. Yea, tis a Day wherein the People of God have their Fears, Lest the Waters overwhelm us, lest the Proud Waters go over our Soul. In the midst of these Clouds our Saviour appears to us, with a Rainbow about His Head.
And the first thing, with which I would animate my Brethren, is; That He is Our Head, and we may safely trust Him with Our All. On that Passage; Eccl. II. 14. A wise mans Eyes are in his head, I remember two of the Ancient Gregories, both a Greek one, and a Latin one, have a devout Gloss, which is rather an Allusion than an Exposition; Our Glorious Christ is our Head; and say they, in Him we have our Eyes. This I may very Reasonably say; O Church of the Lord; Thy Eyes are in thy Head; Even in that Head which has the Rainbow about it. His Eyes will be on the Look-out for thy welfare: He will See to the fulfilling of all that His Covenant has engaged for thee.