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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.
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.
But if all my Countrymen could Read Oughtred's Characters, or ken the Terms & Rules of Trigonometry, with the Doctrine of Fluxions; yet my Printer could not easily accommodate us, with the Schemes that would be needful for Dilucidation. The very few that would be gratified with such things, I leave to Consult the Authors themselves, & shall proceed unto more Theological and Agreeable Contemplations.
But if all my Countrymen could Read Oughtreds Characters, or ken the Terms & Rules of Trigonometry, with the Doctrine of Fluxions; yet my Printer could not easily accommodate us, with the Schemes that would be needful for Dilucidation. The very few that would be gratified with such things, I leave to Consult the Authors themselves, & shall proceed unto more Theological and Agreeable Contemplations.
Quoniam vero Collegium Harvardinum ter-illustre, de Gradu illo […] Theologia, quo me nec Merentem, nec Quaerentem, In lyrissima Academia Glascuensis […] de Honore in suum Filium […], Academice et Benevole judicasse, atque in Tabulas Publicas Diploma indignissimo homunculo concessum retulisse. Sentiam: Gratias me Almae venerandaeque meae Matri publicas (et multo […] quam in […]) devere […] ⟨p. v⟩debitasque hoc Munusculo Iride decorato, jam ex parte persolvo. Fait enim, Dignissimi Domini, […] inter Academiae Vestrae, dumb talem Gradum Confer in Animo […] potestate habuerit, Statuta; Quod Unusquisque illius Gradus Candidatus, Tractatum quendam in Utile quoddam Argumentum, pro Ecclesiarum Commodo in Lucem emittere tenebitur. Quum autem idem pro ista Relation hujusce Dignitatis, quod pro ipsa Collatione (Si Licuerit et placuerit) Officium a me Expectari poterit; En Tractatulum in Utile, et Sane Nobile, Argumentum, vobis Optimo Jure Dedicatum,
QUoniam vero Collegium Harvardinum ter-illustre, de Gradu illo 〈…〉 Theologia, quo me nec Merentem, nec Quaerentem, In lyrissima Academia Glascuensis 〈…〉 de Honore in suum Filium 〈…〉, Academice et Benevole judicasse, atque in Tabulas Publicas Diploma indignissimo homunculo concessum retulisse. Sentiam: Gratias me Almae venerandaeque meae Matri publicas (et multo quam in ) devere