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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.
BUT, Oh! Suffer me a little, that I may show you what I yet have, to speak, on the behalf of GOD, and of a People, who have as yet many of His Children among them.
BUT, Oh! Suffer me a little, that I may shew you what I yet have, to speak, on the behalf of GOD, and of a People, who have as yet many of His Children among them.
I beseech you, Do not say, I am a vain Visionary, if I tell you now, in the Fifth Place, That there is to be seen some Hazard, of such Characters growing upon us, as will be very Disagreeable, very Disreputable, to a People of our High Profession. Sirs, Who sees it not? We are taught; Prov. XIV. 34. Sin is a Reproach to any People. It is very sure. We are a People so Circumstanced in our Profession of Religion, and so Lifted up to Heaven in the Glorious Gospel, and the Means of Instruction and Salvation dispensed unto us, that if we be not the Best People under Heaven, ⟨p. 17⟩we are of all People the most inexcusable. I pray, Let us Beware of those things which will be a Reproach to any People; but more Indelibly and infinitely so to Us, than to any People; and which being found among us, will render us a People more likely and more worthy to Perish, than those Families of the Earth, which have not been so known as we have been.
I beseech you, Do not say, I am a vain Visionary, if I tell you now, in the Fifth Place, That there is to be seen some Hazard, of such Characters growing upon us, as will be very Disagreeable, very Disreputable, to a People of our High Profession. Sirs, Who sees it not? We are taught; Prov. XIV. 34. Sin is a Reproach to any People. It is very sure. We are a People so Circumstanced in our Profession of Religion, and so Lifted up to Heaven in the Glorious Gospel, and the Means of Instruction and Salvation dispens'd unto us, that if we be not the Best People under Heaven,