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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.
THUS have I in the Fear of GOD, and the Love of a People that must not Perish, declared unto my Country-men, What I have Seen; yea, and I declare unto you, The Effect of every Vision is at hand. What I have done, I have done under the Awe of that word; Son of Man, I have made thee a Watchman; Hear the word at my Mouth, and give them warning from me.
AND now, Sirs; As Jacob said unto his Sons; Why do ye look One upon another? I will say, Why do ye continue like People in a Maze, or Cattle that are Stung with an Hornet? GOD forbid, That our People should now only Chafe, and Vex, and Annoy One another: Or be so Humoursome that no Good Proposal shall be accepted, unless the Proposer be of such or such a Party. What? Shall we remain Hungry and hardly bestead, and fret our selves, and curse, and look upward; and there be nothing but only Trouble and Darkness, and Dimness of Anguish among us! Away with all such Things! Oh! Deadly ⟨p. 29⟩Symptoms! A less Inundation than what we are threatened withal, caused the Creatures that most worry One another to sit all down quietly together, upon an Hill in Somerset-shire, and lay aside their Antipathies. I beg it of you, I beg it of you; Oh! For the Love of GOD, Let us treat One another Lovingly, Patiently, Handsomely; And Unite, Oh! Unite, in Combinations, to set forward what may yet make us an Holy and an Happy People.
AND now, Sirs; As Jacob said unto his Sons; Why do ye look One upon another? I will say, Why do ye continue like People in a Maze, or Cattel that are Stung with an Hornet? GOD forbid, That our People should now only Chafe, and Vex, and Annoy One another: Or be so Humoursome that no Good Proposal shall be accepted, unless the Proposer be of such or such a Party. What? Shall we remain Hungry and hardly bestead, and fret our selves, and curse, and look upward; and there be nothing but only Trouble and Darkness, and D•mness of Angash among us! Away with all such Things! Oh! Deadly ⟨p. 29⟩