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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.
ALL possible good Husbandry, and even a Dutch Frugality, in our Public Expenses, may go among the Things that cannot be spoken against. But yet, Wise Men will have their Eyes in their Heads, and Enquire, Whether by Unseasonable Saving in One Point, we may not foolishly throw away more than Ten Times as much in another? Be sure, To be Penny-wise and Pound-foolish, will not be, To guide our Affairs with Discretion. 'Tis well-known, That our Country hath too often brought Prodigious Expenses on themselves, by not being willing to disburse very Little Sums in the True Season of them. Our poor People have cause to Save what they can; But at the same time, they should beware, lest any Pretending Money Savers, do in effect prove their most Expensive Adversaries.
ALL possible good Husbandry, and even a Dutch Frugality, in our Publick Expences, may go among the Things that cannot be spoken against. But yet, Wise Men will have their Eyes in their Heads, and Enquire, Whether by Unseasonable Saving in One Point, we may not foolishly throw away more than Ten Times as much in another? Be sure, To be Peny-wise and Pound-foolish, will not be, To guide our Affairs with Discretion. 'Tis well-known, That our Country hath too often brought Prodigious Expences on themselves, by not being willing to disburse very Little Sums in the True Season of them. Our poor People have cause to Save what they can; But at the same time, they should beware, lest any Pretending Money Savers, do in effect prove their most Expensive Adversaries.
BUT there is a Greater Abomination, which I turn yet again to take some notice of.
THIS Passage, Where there is no Vision, the People Perish, is by Luther so interpreted, The People run fierce, and mad, and mutinous. 'Tis what I am going to speak of. A Grievous Vision is declared unto me!