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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.
I was going in the Fifth Place, to Read this; ⟨p. 20⟩What Aspect will it have, if they that most Meritoriously Serve the Public, must be Perpetually Persecuted with a Monstrous Ingratitude? If Ill Treats, Base Constructions, Vile Calumnies, must always be the Country-Bay, of them who rather deserve Statues, and would have had them among the more grateful Pagans! My Friends, What will it come to?
I was going in the Fifth Place, to Read this; ⟨p. 20⟩What Aspect will it have, if they that most Meritoriously Serve the Publick, must be Perpetually Persecuted with a Monstrous Ingratitude? If Ill Treats, Base Constructions, Vile Calumnies, must always be the Country-Bay, of them who rather deserve Statues, and would have had them among the more grateful Pagans! My Friends, What will it come to?
I was going in the Sixth Place, to Read this; What Aspect will it have, if a Scurvy, and a Nasty Liquor, as a flood sent out from the Mouth of the Dragon to swallow up the Church in the Wilderness, threaten to drown all that is Good in the Land; and there be much more that is needlessly thrown away in this Loathsome Liquor, than what being well applied, would make us the Happiest People in the World! Men of Israel, Help! Was there ever a more Ignominious Ichabod? A Bewitching Bottle, is like to be the Urn, the Grave, of all our Glory. It is incredible, it is astonishing! How much Mischief is threatened unto this poor Country, by the Excess and Abuse of this besotting Liquor. Except you can Substitute Something that shall be more Wholesome and Heartening, for Labouring Men in the room of it, and make it a Dishonourable Thing, for this Liquor to be the constant Resort on all Occasions, we Perish as contemptibly as those Countries, which Histories tell us, the Vilest Creatures have given a Subversion to.
I was going in the Sixth Place, to Read this; What Aspect will it have, if a Scurvy, and a Nasty Liquor, as a flood sent out from the Mouth of the Dragon to swallow up the Church in the Wilderness, threaten to drown all that is Good in the Land; and there be much more that is needlessly thrown away in this Lothsome Liquor, than what being well applied, would make us the Happiest People in the World! Men of Israel, Help! Was there ever a more Ignominious Ichabod? A Bewitching Bottel, is like to be the Urn, the Grave, of all our Glory. It is incredible, it is astonishing! How much Mischief is threatned unto this poor Country, by the Excess and Abuse of this besotting Liquor. Except you can Substitute Something that shall be more Wholesome and Heartning, for Labouring Men in the room of it, and make it a Dishonourable Thing, for this Liquor to be the constant Resort on all Occasions, we Perish as contemptibly as those Countrys, which Histories tell us, the Vilest Creatures have given a Subversion to.