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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.
BUT, my Friends, If your Time, when it comes find you unprepared, and alienated from the Life of GOD, what a Lamentable Condition do you fall into! what amazing Lamentations are you thrown into! The doleful Cry, Lord, Lord, Open to us! what will it avail. Twill be All too Late! All too Late! But the Horror of such a Confusion, O consider of it before it be too late.
YEA, Consider me as now coming to you with a Message from the Dead, and a Message directed more peculiarly and pathetically to the YOUNG PEOPLE among us; and a Message which brings with it a Demand of EARLY PIETY, and their Immediate Conversion to GOD, and Espousal to their SAVIOUR.
AN Early Death, and a very Sudden One too, should never occur, without our Apprehending a Voice of the Glorious GOD unto the Survivors in it. Yea, The Voice of the Lord Cries to the City, and very particularly to the YOUNG PEOPLE of the City; The Children of Wisdom will hearken unto it, and with awakened Souls Lift up their Cries to Heaven upon it; Oh! That before I am cut down, I may bring forth some Fruit unto GOD!
AN Early Death, and a very Sudden One too, should never occur, without our Apprehending a Voice of the Glorious GOD unto the Survivers in it. Yea, The Voice of the Lord Cries to the City, and very particularly to the YOUNG PEOPLE of the City; The Children of Wisdom will hearken unto it, and with awakened Souls Lift up their Cries to Heaven upon it; Oh! That before I am cut down, I may bring forth some Fruit unto GOD!