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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.
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.
THIS is the General State of our Case. One of the more Immediate and Comprehensive Causes for these our Distresses, is, In that, What might invigorate our Trade, runs not among us, either in that Credit, or in that Plenty, that our Occasions call for. The Blood in the Body Politic is depauperated, and has too Hectic a Circulation.
THIS is the General State of our Case. One of the more Immediate and Comprehensive Causes for these our Distresses, is, In that, What might invigorate our Trade, runs not among us, either in that Credit, or in that Plenty, that our Occasions call for. The Blood in the Body Politick is depauperated, and has too Hectick a Circulation.