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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 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.
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 discharg'd 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 proclame 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.
I greatly suspect, that we are fallen into the Period, ⟨p. 63⟩for the Effusion of the Vials, which brings the Last Plagues on the Papal Empire: It looks, as if the first of them, were newly dispensed; A Boil on the Earth; A Pestilence on the Inland Parts of that Empire. I tremble at the Second. — But they will all be Rainbows of Hope, for the pure Worshippers & Followers of the Holy JESUS.