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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. › Meditation 1: The First MEDITATION.
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What a Woeful, what a Fearful Desolation, once came upon a Wicked World, whose Foundation was ⟨p. 7⟩overflown with a Flood! Inasmuch as it was the Flood which introduced the Consideration of the Rainbow, the sight of it, may very suitably bring to Remembrance with us, that horrible Flood, in which as we have read, 2 Pet. II. 5. God spared not the Old World, bringing in the Flood upon the Ungodly. It has been well enough proposed, Admoneat Iris horrendi illius Judicii, quod in Di uvio ostensum fuit. Mercer tells us, That the Religious Jews, in many Places, upon the Appearance of the Rainbow, go forth, and fall down, and confess their Sins, and own themselves worthy to be Drowned with a Flood, for their Iniquities. To us, that are Christians, Our LORD says, What do you more than they?
What a Woful, what a Fearful Desolation, once came upon a Wicked World, whose Foundation was ⟨p. 7⟩overflown with a Flood! Inasmuch as it was the Flood which introduced the Consideration of the Rainbow, the sight of it, may very suitably bring to Remembrance with us, that horrible Flood, in which as we have read, 2 Pet. II. 5. God spared not the Old World, bringing in the Flood upon the Ungodly. It has been well enough proposed, Admoneat Iris horrendi illius Judicii, quod in Di uvio ostensum fuit. Mercer tells us, That the Religious Jews, in many Places, upon the Appearance of the Rainbow, go forth, and fall down, and confess their Sins, and own themselves worthy to be Drowned with a Flood, for their Iniquities. To us, that are Christians, Our LORD says, What do you more than they?
There is no room to doubt the Relation which the Mosaic Records have given us, of that astonishing Revolution, The FLOOD, wherein all Mankind, except the One Family of a Righteous Noah, perished. It is a Matter of Fact, whereof the Evidences are so many and so mighty, that they must Overwhelm all the Contradiction of Infidelity, and, like the Flood it self, carry all before them. It was acknowledged by the most Ancient Writers among the Pagans, quoted by Josephus, and by Eusebius, and by Cyril, and others. Plutarch also has the Story of the Dove in the Flood sent out of the Ark. Tis demonstrated likewise by Kirker in his Arca Noae, that the Deucalion of Antiquity was our Noah. Yea, The Tradition of a General Flood, was every where Currant for Thousands of years