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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.
ANOTHER Thing to be Read, is this. It will have no good Aspect upon us, if it should be so, that a Levelling Spirit get so much Head among us, that no Man shall be in any thing Superior to his Neighbours, but his very Superiority shall make him Obnoxious to Envious Indignities, Obnoxious to all possible Deplumations and Defamations. How contrary this, to the Spirit of Christianity, that says, In Honour prefer one another!
ANOTHER Thing to be Read, is this. It will have no good Aspect upon us, if it should be so, that a Levelling Spirit get so much Head among us, that no Man shall be in any thing Superiour to his Neighbours, but his very Superiority shall make him Obnoxious to Envious Indignities, Obnoxious to all possible Deplumations and Defamations. How contrary this, to the Spirit of Christianity, that says, In Honour prefer one another!
A Third Thing to be Read, is this. It will have no good Aspect upon us, if an Unloving Spirit be so prevailing, th• Piques, and Prejudices, and Emulations and Animosities, are kept in a continual Operation; and it shall be noted, That ⟨p. 19⟩even where they have so much Wit as to make little Noise of their Feuds, yet you shall often find the Families not so well-disposed unto one another, as were to be desired? How contrary this, to the Spirit of Christianity, that says, Be kindly affectioned one to another with Brotherly Love!
A Third Thing to be Read, is this. It will have no good Aspect upon us, if an Unloving Spirit be so prevailing, th• Piques, and Prejudices, and Emulations and Animosities, are kept in a continual Operation; and it shall be noted, That ⟨p. 19⟩even where they have so much Wit as to make little Noise of their Feuds, yet you shall often find the Families not so well-disposed unto one another, as were to be desired? How contrary this, to the Spirit of Christianity, that says, Be kindly affection'd one to another with Brotherly Love!