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Concio ad populum. A distressed people entertained with proposals for the relief of their…
Concio ad populum. A distressed people entertained with proposals for the relief of their distresses. In a sermon at Boston; made in the audience of His Excellency the governor, and the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay, New-England. 12 d. Im. 1719. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]Concio ad populum. A distressed people entertained with proposals for the relief of their distresses. In a sermon at Boston; made in the audience of His Excellency the governour, and the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay, New-England. 12 d. Im. 1719. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Benj. Eliot, 1719
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Valley of Vision IN The Valley of Achor. BOSTON 12 d. Im. 1719.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IN Pursuance of this Commission, I shall take this Opportunity, when the Auditory has in it, ⟨p. 4⟩the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Province, and a Convention of those who are to be the Eyes of the People in the Wilderness: I shall take this Opportunity, Humbly but Freely, to set before you, Some IMPORTANT THINGS, which must be seen, and the sight whereof must be faithfully declared, if we would not have our People for the Lack of a Necessary Vision, to Perish Wonderfully.
THO' of the Fifty Six Years which I have seen in a Weary Pilgrimage, I have now been Thirty Nine in the Public Service of the Churches, and found more than Five Times Seven Years ago, such a Favourable Reception with the Heads of our Tribes, that I might bespeak Some Regard from the most of you, in those Terms, Audit• Senem Juvenes, quem Juvenem Senes audierunt; Let the Younger now hearken to One in the Confines of Old Age, whom the Elder did in his Youth sometimes hearken to: Yet I wave all such Consideration in asking for a due Attention from you, and put all the Regard that I Expect unto my Message, upon the Merit of the Cause, the Truth, and the Weight, and the Importance of the Visions; and the Vast concern of the Matter to be now set before you.
THO' of the Fifty Six Years which I have seen in a Weary Pilgrimage, I have now been Thirty Nine in the Publick Service of the Churches, and found more than Five Times Seven Years ago, such a Favourable Reception with the Heads of our Tribes, that I might bespeak Some Regard from the most of you, in those Terms, Audit• Senem Juvenes, quem Juvenem Senes audierunt; Let the Younger now hearken to One in the Confines of Old Age, whom the Elder did in his Youth sometimes hearken to: Yet I wave all such Consideration in asking for a due Attention from you, and put all the Regard that I Expect unto my Message, upon the Merit of the Cause, the Truth, and the Weight, and the Importance of the Visions; and the Vast concern of the Matter to be now set before you.