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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.
In the next Place; I will freely confess to you, that there is not any One thing at this day a doing, which I have my Eye more upon, than the Fate, & I hope, the approaching Fall, of the Ottoman Empire. There is a Coincidence of more than as many things, to persuade us, That the Three hundred & ninety odd years allotted for the Turks to be the Plagues of the Roman Empire, Expired at the late Peace of Carlowitz. If that Empire should once fall, what a Jubilee would arrive to the poor ⟨p. 62⟩Greek Churches! Oh! Let us Pray more for them! Yea, the Jews as well as the Greeks would feel a quickening Energy upon it. Now, a mighty shake seems to be giving unto the Ottoman Empire. There are Millions of Oppressed Christians, who begin to see a Rainbow in that Thing, if God will please to give the Word. If it should be so, that the Ottoman Empire be falling, Then, Then, that Great Trumpet is going to be blown, which brings on the Kingdoms of this World, to be the Kingdoms of the Lord.
In the next Place; I will freely confess to you, that there is not any One thing at this day a doing, which I have my Eye more upon, than the Fate, & I hope, the approaching Fall, of the Ottoman Empire. There is a Coincidence of more than as many things, to perswade us, That the Threchundred & ninety odd years allotted for the Turks to be the Plagues of the Roman Empire, Expired at the late Peace of Carlowitz. If that Empire should once fall, what a Jubilee would arrive to the poor ⟨p. 62⟩Greek Churches! Oh! Let us Pray more for them! Yea, the Jews as well as the Greeks would feel a quickening Energy upon it. Now, a mighty shake seems to be giving unto the Ottoman Empire. There are Millions of Oppressed Christians, who begin to see a Rainbow in that Thing, if God will please to give the Word. If it should be so, that the Ottoman Empire be falling, Then, Then, that Great Trumpet is going to be blown, which brings on the Kingdoms of this World, to be the Kingdoms of the Lord.
I have one thing more to say. The Grandeur of Antichrist is plainly on a Decline. Yea, the Clouds of this day, are big with desolating Thunder-bolts, to be discharged upon him. The Twelve hundred & Sixty years of the Papacy, could not commence much later than the year Four hundred & fifty, or sixty. All Rational computations conspire to proclaim this; A Great & Notable Day of the Lord is at hand; The Day is near, it is near, & it hasteth greatly! The Papal Authority now Suffers a marvellous Diminution; it is Irrecoverably diminished. Its Bulls roar very insignificately. Let it fulminate what it will, People do but Squib at it. The Spirit of Persecution, which where-ever tis found, is the Spirit of Antichrist, it is wondrous to see, how tis going out of the World; men grow Ashamed of it; They that would fain be at it, yet they also Occasionally acknowledge, That it is Contrary to the Spirit of Christianity. Some that have been most notorious for it, Labour mightily to shift off the charge.