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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 4: The Fourth MEDITATION.
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The Things then to come on, are those whereof we have those Acclamations; Let the Earth be Glad, Let the Field be Joyful, Let all the Trees of the Wood Rejoice. A Total Consumption of them, could not be proposed as that wherein they might be Glad, and be Joyful, and Rejoice. No; the Earnest expectation of the Creature, waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God, is now to be accomplished. That for which the Whole Creation groaneth, even to be brought into the glorious Liberty of the Children of God, is now to be accomplished. The worst that can then be supposed, is what Salonius of old, Expressed as the Sense of many more; Caelum et Terra transibunt per Meliorationem, non per Oblationem. Renovabuntur, non penitus distruentur. Tantum quippe ardebit Sursum, et Terra deorsum, quantum malitia hominum simul et Daemonum Coinquinare potuit. Yea, who can tell, but the Century is now begun, that ⟨p. 28⟩shall see this tremendous Revolution? I am sure, An Old Tradition, that the Rainbow shall cease to appear, forty years before the End of the World, is a poor security to be relied upon.
The Things then to come on, are those whereof we have those Acclamations; Let the Earth be Glad, Let the Field be Joyful, Let all the Trees of the Wood Rejoyce. A Total Consumption of them, could not be proposed as that wherein they might be Glad, and be Joyful, and Rejoyce. No; the Earnest expectation of the Creature, waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God, is now to be accomplished. That for which the Whole Creation groaneth, even to be brought into the glorious Liberty of the Children of God, is now to be accomplished. The worst that can then be supposed, is what Salonius of old, Express'd as the Sense of many more; Caelum et Terra transibunt per Meliorationem, non per Oblationem. Renovabuntur, non penitus distruentur. Tantum quippe ardebit Sursum, et Terra deorsum, quantum malitia hominum simul et Daemonum Coinquinare potuit. Yea, who can tell, but the Century is now begun, that ⟨p. 28⟩shall see this tremendous Revolution? I am sure, An Old Tradition, that the Rainbow shall cease to appear, forty years before the End of the World, is a poor security to be relied upon.