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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.
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 Prov. XX. 13. Open thine Eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with Bread. If you will but so far Open your Eyes, as to see, what Retrenchments of Expenses are absolutely Necessary; so Necessary, that we shall now Sin grievously, if they be not complied withal; you will soon be in a way to Satisfaction.
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 Domestick Expences: 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 Prov. XX. 13. Open thine Eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with Bread. If you will but so far Open your Eyes, as to see, what Retrenchments of Expences are absolutely Necessary; so Necessary, that we shall now Sin grievously, if they be not complied withal; you will soon be in a way to Satisfaction.