N01717:20
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.
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.
NO Time shall be Lost: But the Demand Once and again made unto a Weeping Prophet, What seest Thou? This Demand, is what I must now Express my Zeal for the Service of my Country, in giving a faithful Answer to.
WHAT seest Thou? The First Thing that I see, is what every Man does also see. But, Oh! Why does our Eye no more Effect our Heart, upon a Sight so very much to be trembled at? There is no Vision more plain than this; That we are a People falling into very Grievous Distresses, yea, Growing Distresses; And Except Heaven do Speedily interpose to rescue us out of our Distresses, if we do not Perish, yet we shall have a dreadful Convulsion come upon us; From the Terrors whereof many will Meditate a Removal, and there will be a Great Forsaking in the midst of the Land.