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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 2: The Second MEDITATION.
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When the Lord says unto Noah, With thee will I establish my Covenant, it is a Remark of Munster upon it; That this refers to the Covenant made at the Beginning, about the Promised Seed, that was to break the Old Serpents Head. This Covenant is now Renewed and Assured unto Noah; who now being satisfied, That the Messiah was to descend from him, he could no longer doubt, that God would have a Church continued among his Posterity. Accordingly, When we think on the Preservation of the World, promised with the Rainbow, it should be with such Thoughts as these; Tis for thy sake, O our ⟨p. 20⟩Saviour, that such a Sinful World is preserved. O Just One, Thou art the Everlasting Foundation that the World stands upon! Oh! What shall we do for thee, and for thy Service, Thou Preserver of Men! The Name of Nazarene, signifies, A Preserver. Our JESUS of Nazareth, is our Glorious Nazarene.
And then, as it is well remarked by Heidegger; The CHURCH of God has a singular, a peculiar Concernment, in this Covenant of the Rainbow. The Churches coming to Righteousness by the Messiah, and so the Inheritance of the Righteous, lies Enwrapped in it. And that passage, Neither shall all Flesh be cut off, carries an Intimation, that God will become the God of All Nations, and bring some of All Nations into His Kingdom. Indeed, the Preservation of all Creatures, is for the sake of the Church. All is yours! It was no mistake in Ferus; Pactum cum Noe Prefiguravit Faedus Christi cum Ecclesia. But he might have said more than so. Indeed, The Signification of the Rainbow is to be so Summed up; That there shall not come another Universal Flood upon the World; but that God will preserve a Church in the World; and make it Righteous, & bring it to Inherit the World; and all this, for the sake of the Messiah, whom we find afterwards appearing with a Rainbow about Him.
And then, as it is well remark'd by Heidegger; The CHURCH of God has a singular, a peculiar Concernment, in this Covenant of the Rainbow. The Churches coming to Righteousness by the Messiah, and so the Inheritance of the Righteous, lies Enwrapped in it. And that passage, Neither shall all Flesh be cut off, carries an Intimation, that God will become the God of All Nations, and bring some of All Nations into His Kingdom. Indeed, the Preservation of all Creatures, is for the sake of the Church. All is yours! It was no mistake in Ferus; Pactum cum Noe Prefiguravit Faedus Christi cum Ecclesia. But he might have said more than so. Indeed, The Signification of the Rainbow is to be so Summed up; That there shall not come another Universal Flood upon the World; but that God will preserve a Church in the World; and make it Righteous, & bring it to Inherit the World; and all this, for the sake of the Messiah, whom we find afterwards appearing with a Rainbow about Him.