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A50175	Winter meditations directions how to employ the leisure of the winter for the glory of God : accompanied with reflections as well historical as theological, not only upon the circumstances of winter, but also upon the notable works of God, both in creation and Providence ... / by Cotton Mather ; with a preface of John Higginson.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Higginson, John, 1616-1708.	1693 (1693)	Wing M1170; ESTC R24049	51,315	99

unto Cursing Hos 10.12 Lord It is Time for me to seek thee that thou wouldest Rain down Righteousness upon me Isa 44.3 Lord pour Floods of Celestial Water upon my Thirsty Soul pour and shower thy Spirit upon me Ezek. 22.24 Lord Let not our Land be a Land not Rained upon in the Day of Indignation Job 5.9 10 Lord Thou dost Marvellous Things without Number when thou givest Rain upon the Earth Isa 4.6 Lord give me in thy self a Place of Refuge and of Covert from Storm and from Rain Psal 84.6 7 Lord Tho' the Rain fill the Pools yet let me chearfully go thro' Wet and Dry to wait upon thee in the Assemblies of thy Zion Gen 7.2 Lord Rescue me and the World from the Sins that once provoked thee to make it Rain upon the Earth Forty Days and Forty Nights till a Desolating Flood came upon the World Ezr 10.9 Lord Let a great Rain cause me to Tremble at thy greater Judgments Prov 27.15 Lord Send not upon me an Affliction which may be as a continual Dropping in a very Rainy Day Prov 16.15 Lord Let thy Favour in the Favour of my Rulers be to me As a Cloud of the Latter Rain Hos 6.3 Lord Came unto me in a way of mercy As the Rain as the latter and the former Rain upon the Earth Jer. 5.24 Finally Let me now fear the Lord my God that giveth Rain Thus for the Rain But when the SNOW which is Frothed Rain lies about us our Wishes may be thus Formed Isa 55.10.11 Lord As the Snow comes down from Heaven returns not thither but waters the Earth makes it bring forth bud So let thy Word accomplish my being made fruitful before thee Prov. 25.13 Lord As the Cold of Snow or drink Snow-Cold in the time of Harvest is very acceptable so let my Fidelity render Me to all that are concerned in me Job 19.30 Lord help me to Consider that tho' I should wash my self with Snow-Water make my hands never so clean yet much Filthiness would cleave unto me whereby I deserve to be Abhorred Lam. 4.7 Lord let a Work of real Sanctification upon me render me like the Nazarites purer than Snow Numbers 12.10 Lord make me penitently sensible of the Leprosy upon my soul which is a Distemper worse than that Bodily one wherein persons have become Leprous White as the Snow Isa 1.18 Psal 51.7 Lord let my sins that have been like Scarlet become White like Snow by thy Free and Full pardon of them all O wash me in thy Blood of Sprinkling and I shall be whiter than Snow Dan. 7.9 Rev. 1.14 Lord prepare me for and hasten on the World the coming of that Ancient of Days whose Garments are white as the snow and whose Hairs are white as Wool as white as Snow Prov. 26.1 Lord let me not be like one of those Fo●ls for whom Honour would be unseemly like the Snow in Summer Psal 147.16 18. Lord when thou hast given Snow like Wool thou sendest out thy word and meltest it and wilt not thou melt this heart of mine by thy word into the Resolutions of Repentance Jer 18.14 15 Will a man leave the Snow of Lebanon which comes from the Rock of the Fiel●● Would a Thirsty Traveller finding such a Supply of pure water slight it Neither let me Forget thee O my God This for the Snow But when the HAIL which is Frozen Rain Visits us it may Awaken these Wishes in us Hag. 2.17 Lord It was thy Complaint I Smote you with Hail yet ye turned not unto me Let not my Obstinacy in Sin give cause for that Complaint Rev. 16.21 Lord Hasten upon the Antichristian Babylon that Great Hail out of Heaven whereof every ●tone shall be about the weight of a Talent Isa 28.2 Lord Let not thy people be Invaded by any Enemy which as a Tempest of Hail and a Destroying Storm shall cast them down to the Earth Ezek. 13 13. Isa 28.17 Psal 18.12 Lord Let not my Refuges be such as there shall be an Overflowing Shower in thine Anger and Great Hail-stones in thy Fury to consume them Let them not be Refuges of Lies which the Hail shall sweep away Fit me for the Day when I shall see the Descending Jesus Alarum the World with Brightness Hailstones and Coals of Fire Isa 30.30 Lord Let me Tremble at thy Threatnings as they did in the Day when thou didst cause thy Glorious Voice to be heard and Show the Lighting down of thy Arm with Scattering and Tempest and Hailstones Josh 10.11 Blessed be God That He does not cast down such great Stones from Heaven upon us as to make us Dy with the Hailstones Exod. 9.20 The Epyptians being warned of a great Hail such as Feared the Word of the Lord fled into Houses for their Safety Lord Let me so Fear the Hailstorm of thy Judgments as to seek for Safety in the Lord Jesus Christ But it were Endless to Enumerate the Ejaculations of a Devout Mind on these Occasions Thus When 't is FAIR Clear Bright WEATHER how Agreeable were it for us to wish Lord may the Light of thy Countenance be Uplifted on my Soul and May I walk in that Light all the Day Long So when 't is Cloudy Weather how Agreeable to wish Lord When shall the Son of Man come in the Clouds of Heaven and O let it not be with my Soul a Day of Clouds and of thick Darkness The shooting of such Arrows up to Heaven is an Incomparable Exercise for a Soul that Looks to Eternal Invisibles to Invisible Eternals on a Winter-Day and of the man that on a Winter Day so Employs himself I say Blessed is the man that has a Quiver full of such Arrows IV. The Merciful Words of God which provides for our NECESSITIES IN THE WINTER are very manifold and it becomes us to take a most Thankful Notice of those many Mercies When our God Seals up our ●im●● in the Winter He Opens His own Hand in our Literal Supplies for the Winter and we should so Know those Works of God as to be Thankfully Affected with them The Winter it self That is not without much of Mercy in it It is our Winter particularly which for divers Months in the Year 〈◊〉 a better Defence unto us against Forreign Invasions than all the Sconces and Castles wherewith we could be Fortify'd Doubtless the Polanders thought their Cold was a kindness unto them when in an Army of seventy Thousand Turks Invading them Forty Thousand suddenly perished by the Severity of the Cold tho' it were but the Month of November with them Truly in the Month of November the Cold begins none of the least preservatives also for us New-En●●anders And who can say How many Epidemical Diseases have by our Winter been Extinguished Our Cold precipitates the Vapours which would else Thicken and Poison our Air and by Freezing the Surface of the Earth i● keeps in many malignant Steams that otherwise would thence

the VVind Ezek. 37.19 Lord Let the Breath come from the four winds and breathe upon thy slain people every where that they may Live Dan. 7.2 Lord Let the strivings of the Wind upon the Sea in the Tumults of the Nations produce the Accomplishment of thy Glorious Prophe●●●s Isa 4● 36 Lord bring not the four winds from 〈…〉 ●●●●tors of Heaven to scatter any part of thy Church toward all these winds Zech. 6.5 Lord Let me have many Heavenly Kindnesses done for me by thine Angels whom thou callest The VVinds of the Heaven Isa 27.8 Lord Let not thy Anger overthrow me but stay thy Rough wind in the Day of the East wind Isa 41.16 Isa 64.6 Lord Let me not be found among those whom the VVind of thy Displeasure shall carry away and the VVhirlwind scatter them and let it not be said of me My Iniquities Like the VVind have taken me away Job 20.15 Lord Let not thy Terrors in sore Calamities be turned upon me Let them not pur●●e my Soul as the wind Isa 32.2 Psal 55.8 Lord Let the Blessed JESUS be unto me As an Hiding Place from the wind and a Covert from the Tempest Unto Him Thorough Him Let me hasten my Escape from the windy Storm and Tempest Matth. 7.25 Lord Let me be a Wise P●●●●● the House of whose Faith and Hope shall be so Founded on the Rich as to stand when the VVinds blow and beat upon it Hof 13.15 Lord Let no Adversary like an East wind come and as the wind of the Lord come up against thy People John 3.8 Lord As the Wind Howeth where it Listeth and we hear the sound thereof but cannot tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth so let me be Born of thy Holy Spirit Eccl 11.4 Lord Let me not so observe the wind as to neglect any Opportunities of Sowing in Acts of Liberality Math 8.27 Lord The Winds obey thy Christ O Let me do so too Psal 18.10 Lord Unto the Saving and Helping of all thy people do thou Fly upon the VVing●s of the Wind and let me do so in the Swiftness of my Obedience unto thy Majesty Gen. 8.1 Lord Let that Wind pass over Earth which may carry off the Flood of Ignorance Wickedness and Misery that has Long Overwhelmed it Jon. 4.8 Lord Expose me not unto any such vehement East-wind of Calamity as may cause my Soul to faint Act 27.7 Lord Let me not have cause to complain concerning my Voyage to Glory The VVind would not suffer me Psal 107.25 29. Lord Let not a Stormy-wind be Raised in my Soul but do thou make the Storm a Calm Eph. 4 14. Lord Let me not be like a Child in Religion Tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine Jam. 1.6 Lord Let me alwayes Pray in Faith not wavering like a Wave of the Sea driven with the VVind Jam. 3.4 Lord Let me will m●●tage the Helm of my Tongue when the 〈◊〉 winds are driving of me Job 7.7 Lord cause me duely to Remember that my Life is wind so Transitory and Evanescent I am as the VVind that ●●sseth away and cometh not again Isa 45.29 Lord Leave me not unto a Dotage upon those Idols which are but VVind and Confusion Hos 8.7 Lord Let me not fall into those Iniquities wherein I shall only Sow the VVind and Reap the VVhirlwind Job 15.2 Job 16.3 Lord Let me not pursue that vain knowledge which does but fill the Belly with the East-wind nor let me use VVords of VVind Jer 5.13 22.22 Eccl 5.5.16 Lord Let not my Expectations become wind and let not the wind Eat up my Comforts Nor let me in my Undertakings Labour for the wind Prov. 25.14 Lord Let me not be a proud Boaster of a False Gift like Clouds and VVind without Rain Isa 7.2 Lord Let me not be overcome with such Fears that my Heart shall be waved as the Trees of the Wood are moved with the Wind. So I Read Cant. 4.16 Depart O Northwind and Come thou South blow upon my Garden that the Spices thereof may flow out The other Meteors that most abound in the Winter are the Aqu●●●●●nes rather than the Ignite The whole 〈◊〉 seems to be a Great Vaporary or Alemb●● for the Generating of them their Origin is that in Psal 135.7 and Jer. 10.13 God causes the Vapour to Ascend from the Ends of the Earth Well then Of these When the RAIN falls upon us by a Resolution of Raised Vapours into drops of Water Let our wishes be of this Import and we shall have Showers of Blessing indeed both in Summer and in Winter too Psal 11.6 Gen. 19.24 Lord Let me be none of the Wicked upon whom thou wilt Rain Snares Fire and Brimstone and an Horrible Tempest as thou didst of old upon wicked Sodom Jer. 17.6 Lord Let not my Soul be Like the Heath in the Desart that sees not when Good Rain cometh Acts 14.17 Lord Let me humbly Acknowledge the Witness which thou givest of thy Power and Goodness in thy Giving us Rain from Heaven Lev. 26.4 Deut 11.14 and 28.12 1 King 8.36 Psal 68.9 and 65.11 Lord Evermore fulfil thy Promise to thy People I will give you Rain in due Season and when they ask for it Then Teach them the good way wherein they should walk and give Rain upon thy Land and Send plentiful Rains to confirm thine Inheritance when it shall be weary So Let thy Paths the Clouds Drop Fatness upon us Jer. 14 22. see Zech 10.1 Are there any among the Vanities of the Gentiles that can cause Rain Or can the Heavens give showers Art not thou He O Lord our God Therefore we will wait upon thee for thou hast made all of these things Amos 4.7 Lord I would own That it is Thou who causest it to Rain upon one City and causest it not to Rain upon another City Mic. 5.7 Lord Let the Accomplishments of thy Word unto thy Church come like the showrs upon the Grass which tarries not for man nor waits for the Sons of men Math 5.45 Lord As Thou sendest Rain upon the Just and the Unjust So let me do good unto all men even unto my Foes as well as unto my Friends Zech. 14.17 Isa 5.6 Lord Let me not have a Soul without the Rain of Grace or Joy as they have that come not into thy Church to Worship the King the Lord of Hosts Nor let thy Vineyard so offend thee that thou shalt Command the Clouds to Rain no Rain upon it Deut. 32.2 Lord Let thy Word in the Dispensations of the Gospel Drop as the Rain upon my Soul Psal 72.6 Lord Let the Influences of thy Son the Lord Jesus Christ come down upon the World and upon Me in the World Like Rain upon the Mown Grass as the showers that water the Earth Heb. 6.7.8 Lord Let me not be Like the Earth which Drinks in the Rain that comes oft upon it but bears Thorns and Briars and is Rejected and is nigh

Indeed there is not One Day in the Year whereon we should not be In the fear of the Lord all the Day long but there are diverse Months in the Year wherein the Fear of God is to single out some special ways of Exercise That there are Special Duties of Christianity belonging to the winter i● intimated in the words now Read unto us and it is also intimated what those Christian Duties are T is Piety that the winter should advance any further upon us before we have had some discourse of these Duties To be minding one another of these things would be more Significant and more Profitable than our impertinent expence of time in telling one another That it is very Cold. T is possible that your Devotions here in this winter-season put you upon some Trial of your Patience But I have an occasion here to tell you You have heard of the Patience of JOB He was a Person of Quality who dwelt in Arabia the Des●rt and yet that Arabia could not but be the Happy while it enjoyed the Presence of such a Ruler But what a manifold Unhappiness overtook this Excellent person and Unhappiness wherein he fell at once from great Wealth and Health into Miseries that have made a Proverb all Ages have since heard with wonderment In these his Miseries he was visited by some of his Comfortable Neighbours who yet proved but Miserable Comforters Among these Visitants there were Three more Aged Men of God which Venerable Saints all took their Turns in dealing with him about his Condition before the Lord but at length it came to the Turn of a Fourth who tho' he were a Younger Person yet stood something longer than the rest in the Disputation This Elihis for That was his Name is in our Context proving That as there is a most Inscrutable and Unblemished Wisdom in all the Works of God so in the Afflictions which the Lord had now sent upon Job there was nothing to be at all complained of Whatever is done by our Great God either in the Great World or to the Little World we have cause to say He hath done ALL Things WELL and there is no Work of God whereof all Circumstances considered we have not cause to own His W●rk is perfect Nothing in the World could be more Arrogant than the Speech uttered by the King of Arrage● That he could have contrived a better shaped World nor more worthy to be Reb●ked with such Burning Thunderbolts as the Spanish Annals tell us brought that haughty Monarch unto Repentance But among those Excellent Works of the God who is Excellent is working such Works as are every Winter to be seen have a Remark most particularly here set upon them In our Text First We have some Accidents of the Winter He saith to the Snow Be thou on the Earth 〈…〉 to the Small Rain and is the Great Rain of His Strength In the Winter we have plenty of Snow and Rain and those Notable Productions of the M●●e r●us Kingdom as the come from the Word so they shew forth the Strength of our God Not only such Snows as those that fall upon Caucasus whereof such is the Quantity that Strabo tells us whole Regiments of Men have perished therein overwhelmed but the ordinary Snows of every Winter Not only such Rains as th●se that fall near Mexico whereof Johnston reports that sometimes the Drops are so ●ig and fierce as to kill the very people with their fury but the ordinary Rains of every Winter these have much of God appealing in them And one thing therein done by our God is this He seals up the Hand of every man That is By h●d Weather he binds up their Hands from doing any Work abroad But indeed there are more than those who work chiefly with their Hands that feel these Obstructions of the 〈◊〉 Wherefore the French Version so carrys it 〈…〉 fait que chacun se Renferme that is Then he makes every man shut himself up and it is very Expressive There is an Impious Interpretation that some have made of these words as if being In m●nu Omnium Hominum signa posuit they countenanced Chiromancy a foolish and absurd Science which pretends from the Lines in our Hands to read the Fates of our Lives As for that curious Vanity I shall say but thus much of it The Lines in our Hands are mostly formed by the Accidental Uses and Motions of our Hands and may accordingly by the like means be altered Opinions about our future Circumstances and Contingencies cannot be drawn to any purpose from these Lines unless they be done mee●ly by Impulse and the Impulse which has often darted many true Predictions into the Minds of Ungodly Fortune tellers when they have been po●ing on the Hands of others is ordinarily from some of the Demons who are at Hand always to Encourage such Impieties and of the Predictions which the Demons have thus perhaps Litt upon but as probable Conjectures they immediately Employ all their Interest which in This world is very great for the Accomplishment Of the ●i●ine Vengeance leaving such wretched Fortune tellers unto the more than ordinary power of the Devil we have in our own I and lately seen most horrid Instances Away then with all such Diabolical Communions Let us with a Christian Resignation wait upon God in a willing and a wi●ohome Ignorance of The Secret Things which being unto the Lord. But then Secondly we have some Employments for the VVinter Men are Seal'd from their work when the Winter comes But what Have they no work then to mind Yes All men are then to know his work To Know that work is according to th●● im●ort and Fulness of the Hebrew Phrase to ●●a●n the work to Love the work to Do the Work Why The work is Gods work the Work that God would have to he known and therefore most worthy to be known Well There is an Important CASE wherewith I would hence take occasion to give you some WINTER ENTERTAINMENTS It is The CASE What Special Works for the Glory of God may and should be 〈◊〉 by the Children of Men when by the hard we ●her of the Winter He shuts them up or Hinders them from their Ordinary Businesses They are not only Commoda or Profitable Things but also Accommoda or Seasonable Things which are to be Preached among you Our Winter is our Liesure and as it will be a Profitable so 't is but a Seasonable Undertaking to Lay before you How the Liesure of the Winter may be most Improved for the Glory of God Now without any further Preface First that we may speak more Negatively it is to be asserted That the Liesure of the Winter must not be Ab●sed as if it were a Liesure to work Abominations or 〈◊〉 is were a Liesure for any Superstitious or Prohibited Sensualities 'T is not in the Slothful and Frothy Diversions of Bad Company nor in things which will wrong our Souls that our