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Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences…
Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences from it, and the great advantages of it. : Upon a special and mournful occasion. : [Seven lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Gerrish, 1727
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 Articles wherein you have had set before you, the Future Events of our Times, whereof our GOD will keep us in the greatest Uncertainties, are then these Two; First, That which is the greatest of all our Changes; And, then, all the Changes which may before That come upon us. Our Meditation must not easily, and presently dismiss these Articles of our Times which are unknown unto us. But before we pass any further, Let an earnest EXHORTATION prevail with us, To Entertain this Meditation, and he duly affected with it. Oh! may this Thought be often rolling in our Minds; I know not my Time, nor do I know any thing that is to befall me in my Time! And may our Minds feel the power of it; bring our Lives under the power of it! The very Pagans would sometimes give an Entertainment unto this Meditation; and say, Nescis quid serus Vesper vebat; O Man, Thou knowest not what may before Night be to come upon thee. Certainly, It becomes Christians to give a more ⟨p. 8⟩affecting entertainment unto such a Meditation.
THE Articles wherein you have had set before you, the Future Events of our Times, whereof our GOD will keep us in the greatest Uncertainties, are then these Two; First, That which is the greatest of all our Changes; And, then, all the Changes which may before That come upon us. Our Meditation must not easily, and presently dismiss these Articles of our Times which are unknown unto us. But before we pass any further, Let an earnest EXHORTATION prevail with us, To Entertain this Meditation, and he duely affected with it. Oh! may this Thought be often rolling in our Minds; I know not my Time, nor do I know any thing that is to befal me in my Time! And may our Minds feel the power of it; bring our Lives under the power of it! The very Pagans would sometimes give an Entertainment unto this Meditation; and say, Nescis quid serus Vesper vebat; O Man, Thou knowest not what may before Night be to come upon thee. Certainly, It becomes Christians to give a more ⟨p. 8⟩affecting entertainment unto such a Meditation.