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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.
VERILY, If this Course were followed, here would be a Jerusalem; There would be a Vision of Peace among us. Yea, How much of the Holy City, would Come down from GOD out of Heaven unto us! The Ministers of the Gospel, are by their Office, the Watchmen of the People. These Watchers, if they are, and, Lord, wilt thou not make them such! — Holy Ones, they will be always on the Look-out, that they may see what occurs to Expose our People unto the Anger of GOD, by which we are Troubled; and that they may see what is to be done that the People may be brought back into the Favour of GOD, which our very Life does turn upon. Go on, and Prosper, O Men of GOD; and Men that have Understanding in the Visions of GOD. And, O ye Stars, Do you Fight in your Courses, against every Thing that brings Confusion upon us. Never, Never, Let it be said, as in Lam. II. 9. Her Prophets find no Vision from the Lord.
VERILY, If this Course were followed, here would be a Ierusalem; There would be a Vision of Peace among us. Yea, How much of the Holy City, would Come down from GOD out of Heaven unto us! The Ministers of the Gospel, are by their Office, the Watchmen of the People. These Watchers, if they are, and, Lord, wilt thou not make them such! — Holy Ones, they will be always on the Look-out, that they may see what occurs to Expose our People unto the Anger of GOD, by which we are Troubled; and that they may see what is to be done that the People may be brought back into the Favour of GOD, which our very Life does turn upon. Go on, and Prosper, O Men of GOD; and Men that have Understanding in the Visions of GOD. And, O ye Stars, Do you Fight in your Courses, against every Thing that brings Confusion upon us. Never, Never, Let it be said, as in Lam. II. 9. Her Prophets find no Vision from the Lord.
BUT then, the Second Thing to be seen & said, and the Vision whereof does with some Haste crowd in upon us, is This; There are ASSOCIATIONS necessary. It is an Old saying, Plus vident oculi quam oculus. The more Eyes there are to be employed in it, the better and clearer will be the Vision. The Sentence is of a great Antiquity, Two are better than One. And for this