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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.
YOU may not Challenge me for trespassing on the Province of a Divine, or on the Business of the Pulpit, if I insist upon a Prudent and proper Frugality, as a Thing of the last Consequence for the welfare of our People. Our Great SAVIOUR, who is the very Wisdom of GOD, commended Frugality to His Disciples, Even when He Miraculously Multiplied their Bread & their Fish unto them. And without Frugality, WE cannot avoid that Iniquity, which will carry us into the Paths of the Destroyer, and bring a Swift ⟨p. 11⟩Destruction upon us. It has been one of the Unjust Invectives used by some Frowards against your Ministers, That while we Preach Faith and Repentance unto our People, Moral Honesty is forgotten among them. Heaven and Earth will afford a Cloud of Witnesses, That Moral Honesty, is with the greatest Fervency imaginable Preached unto you. But a Frugality, is now to be particularly Preached, as that without which all Moral Honesty must quickly fail among you. You will Mark what I say unto you! Ingenious Men may and will project many Ways and Means, to retrieve the Difficulties that are growing upon us. But all their Projections will Signify nothing, and we can see none but a Palliative Cure, until we so Regulate our Expenses, that we don't every Year continually run into Debt unto Other Countries. How shall we avoid running into Debt unto Other Countries, if we don't Moderate our Expenses of such Things as we fetch from thence, and are not able to Pay for? Nothing but a Frugality can help us; We Bleed unto Death, until that Sovereign Styptic be applied unto us. Unless this One Thing be brought into Practice, all our Projectors will be Physicians of no value, and our Fate will be that; Jer. XLVI. 11. In vain shalt thou use many Medicines, for thou shalt not be cured.
YOU may not Challenge me for trespassing on the Province of a Divine, or on the Business of the Pulpit, if I insist upon a Prudent and proper Frugality, as a Thing of the last Consequence for the welfare of our People. Our Great SAVIOUR, who is the very Wisdom of GOD, commended Frugality to His Disciples, Even when He Miraculously Multiplied their Bread & their Fish unto them. And without Frugality, WE cannot avoid that Iniquity, which will carry us into the Pathes of the Destroyer, and bring a Swift ⟨p. 11⟩