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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
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The GOSPEL of the Rainbow.
ZECH. X. 1. The Lord shall make Bright Clouds.
A Mind commonly forming of Good Thoughts, & filled with them on all Occasions is thereby really Ennobled and Enriched: And Thoughts do not more prove the Existence of it, than Good and Right and Wise Ones will contribute unto its Felicity. Such a Mind makes a just claim, to the Dignity, which in REASON belongs unto it; and it has, yea, it makes, a sort of Heaven for it self, with an Holy Anticipation of the more Local Flight, it is ere long to take into the Heavenly World. It follows, that One of the best Kindnesses that can be done unto the Children of Men, is to Supply them with Good Thoughts: One of the Kindest Offices that we can do for our Neighbours, is to awaken in them the Thought ⟨p. 2⟩of the Rational and Religious; and help them in Thinking on the Things wherein they are concerned. Of Writing many Books for this End, our Ecclesiastes long since advised, Let there be no End! Tho' the Study of Writing them should be never such a Weariness to the Flesh, yet we will not be Weary of Well-doing in this way, nor count it a Vanity, in this way to go on with Essays to cure Vanity.
A Mind commonly forming of Good Thoughts, & filled with them on all Occasions is thereby really Ennobled and Enriched: And Thoughts do not more prove the Existence of it, than Good and Right and Wise Ones will contribute unto its Felicity. Such a Mind makes a just claim, to the Dignity, which in REASON belongs unto it; and it has, yea, it makes, a sort of Heaven for it self, with an Holy Anticipation of the more Local Flight, it is e're long to take into the Heavenly World. It follows, that One of the best Kindnesses that can be done unto the Children of Men, is to Supply them with Good Thoughts: One of the Kindest Offices that we can do for our Neighbours, is to awaken in them the Thought