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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.
SO long as they that are sent by the King, approve themselves Worthy of the Royal Commission, and in the Faithful Discharge of it, both Obey their Great Master, a•d Express His Royal Equity and Clemency, in th••r Ca•e for the Welfare of His People, certainly our good Carriage towards them, will be requisite, that we may Adorn the Doctrine of GOD our SAVIOUR, and avoid a thousand unmentionable Miseries. Men may propose to make themselves Popular, ⟨p. 24⟩by a Spirit of Parsimony, or by a Spirit of Contradiction; But if such Men do not keep their stops, they may unawares prove the Betrayers, and the Destroyers of what they have most pretended for. Truly, Sirs, We are not over-stocked with Friends on the other side of the Atlantic; Enow and Enow there are, disaffected unto all of our Enjoyments: Let us not frowardly throw away the Few Friends we have: And above all beware of every Thing, that may represent us as an Untractable People, fit for none but a Parliamentary Cognisance. I say unto you, A Parliamentary Displeasure provoked against us, — I hope, we shall never do any thing of such a Tendency. 'Tis greatly to be trembled at! —
SO long as they that are sent by the King, approve themselves Worthy of the Royal Commission, and in the Faithful Discharge of it, both Obey their Great Master, a•d Express His Royal Equity and Clemency, in th••r Ca•e for the Welfare of His People, certainly our good Carriage towards them, will be requisite, that we may Adorn the Doctrine of GOD our SAVIOUR, and avoid a thousand unmentionable Miseries. Men may propose to make themselves Popular, ⟨p. 24⟩by a Spirit of Parsimony, or by a Spirit of Contradiction; But if such Men do not keep their stops, they may unawares prove the Betrayers, and the Destroyers of what they have most pretended for. Truly, Sirs, We are not over-stock'd with Friends on the other side of the Atlantick; Enow and Enow there are, disaffected unto all of our Enjoyments: Let us not frowardly throw away the Few Friends we have: And above all beware of every Thing, that may represent us as an Untractable People, fit for none but a Parlaimentary Cognisance. I say unto you, A Parlaimentary Displeasure provoked against us, — I hope, we shall never do any thing of such a Tendency. 'Tis greatly to be trembled at! —