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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
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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.
But I press for a more Stated Conversation upon it, in Societies, which if they cannot themselves put their own Projections in Execution, may yet make their Offers of Excellent Things, to those by whom they can be Executed; and be Indefatigable! My Friends, Allow me to address you after this Manner. Associate your selves, O ye People, that ye may not be broken in pieces; Take counsel together, that it may not come to nought. If GOD be with us, you will do so!
WERE this Point once gained, Methinks, it might Supersede the rest that I may have to insist upon. And indeed all the rest, I would have to be Looked upon, as Things chiefly tendered unto the Enquiry of such Societies for the Belief of the Public Distresses, when they shall be Associated.
WERE this Point once gained, Methinks, it might Supersede the rest that I may have to insist upon. And indeed all the rest, I would have to be Look'd upon, as Things chiefly tendered unto the Enquiry of such Societies for the Belief of the Publick Distresses, when they shall be Associated.
I will, in the next Place pass to the Vision, and mention of a Third Thing, which I must call, The Grand Expedient, for the preventing of the dreadful Perplexities, which this poor ⟨p. 10⟩Country finds growing upon it. That which I will again and again call, The GRAND EXPEDIENT, is, Frugality, I say, Frugality; A Discrete, a Righteous, a Needful FRUGALITY, in our Domestic Expenses: More particularly, A Frugality in our TABLES, and a Frugality in our HABITS. That Man has no Vision of the Country, or of its Interest, who does not see that our People must Perish, if a wise Frugality be not more commonly practised. We are perplexed with anxious Thoughts, How we shall anon get our Bread, and maintain our selves and our Families. But I may now say unto you, as in