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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.
The Valley of Vision IN The Valley of Achor. BOSTON 12 d. Im. 1719.
MY Text, and a very Awful Text, this Day, is to be, the State of a Languishing, if not a Perishing People; A People, which I would, and every Man here should, Study to Serve with all possible Fidelity. To introduce and enliven my Discourse, I must first Read unto you a Text found among the Proverbs of Israel.
PROVERBS XXIX. 18. Where there is no Vision, the People Perish.
THERE was a famous Land, and One which was once the Glory of all Lands, the Name whereof was, The Valley of Vision. But of this Land, we Read a very sad ⟨p. 2⟩Story; Isai. XXII. 5. It is a Day of Trouble, and of Treading down, and of Perplexity by the Lord of H•sts, in the Valley of Vision.