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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.
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.
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 woful Degeneracy, what an horred 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 Pott•rs, 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-pac'd 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 aston•shed at the Vision; But I suppose, every one Understands it.