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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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It has been on all hands agreed, That in the Rainbow, we have, the Mercy of our God, in Lively Colours Painted out unto us. And some will more Particularly have the Three Colours of Red, and Green, and Blue, in the Rainbow, to intimate the sweet Mixture of Justice and Mercy, accomplished by the Blood of the Covenant. But it is a Prejudice to those Niceties, that the Colours of the Rainbow are more than Three, This however, may, Thirdly, be a very Proper Meditation on the Sight of the Rainbow. It Proclaims the Mercy of God unto a Sinful World. Yea, how Emblematically! It was noted by Ambrose of old; That our God says, I will put my Bow in the Cloud. He says nothing of any Arrows. Tis a Bow without Arrows. When we see this Bow, let us then call to mind the Mercy of our God; and with a Grateful Soul acknowledge, Lam. III. 22. It is of the Lord's Mercies, that we are not Consumed; because His Compassions fail not. Indeed as the Rainbow is formed in a Cloud, (which Commenius observes,) a Luce in millies millenis diffluentu Nubis Guttulis div•rsimode reflexa: the Mercies of our God unto us, are far more than the Drops in that Cloud. Lord, How great is the Sum of them!
It has been on all hands agreed, That in the Rainbow, we have, the Mercy of our God, in Lively Colours Painted out unto us. And some will more Particularly have the Three Colours of Red, and Green, and Blue, in the Rainbow, to intimate the sweet Mixture of Justice and Mercy, accomplished by the Blood of the Covenant. But it is a Prejudice to those Niceties, that the Colours of the Rainbow are more than Three, This however, may, Thirdly, be a very Proper Meditation on the Sight of the Rainbow. It Proclames the Mercy of God unto a Sinful World. Yea, how Emblematically! It was noted by Ambrose of old; That our God sayes, I will put my Bow in the Cloud. He sayes nothing of any Arrows. Tis a Bow without Arrows. When we see this Bow, let us then call to mind the Mercy of our God; and with a Grateful Soul acknowledge, Lam. III. 22. It is of the Lord's Mercies, that we are not Consumed; because His Compassions fail not. Indeed as the Rainbow is formed in a Cloud, (which Commenius observes,) a Luce in millies millenis diffluentu Nubis Guttulis div•rsimode reflexa: the Mercies of our God unto us, are far more than the Drops in that Cloud. Lord, How great is the Sum of them!