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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.
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!
A Fourth Thing to be Read, is This. It will have a very bad Aspect upon us, if it should be so, that a Neglect and a Contempt of Education, should bring out Schools into Darkness, and the Laws about Schools be Evaded, Eluded, Scandalously plaid withal. What a woeful Degeneracy, what an horrid Barbarity, shall we soon fall into! I have read a sad Story; 1 Chron. IV. 22, 23. There was a set of Brave Men, who had the Dominion in Moab: These were Ancient Things. But then their Posterity; These were Potters, and those who dwelt amongst Plants and Hedges. Truly, We have had Brave Men in our Ancient Times. But shall we bring this upon our Posterity, that there shall not be One Thorough-paced and Universal Scholar in the Country? That there shall not be in a whole Town, a Man who shall be Clerk enough to Write common Sense in a short Certificate! That there shall scarce be found a Man fit for to appear any where but among the Hedges? I must say, with the Prophet, I am astonished at the Vision; But I suppose, every one Understands it.