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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

A●●ipathy to God and your Prejudice against all that is Holy and Just and Good So Interminable ●orments and Regrets will become in some sort Essential to your to saken Souls and you will be Confirmed in the Natural Consequents of Enmity to God world without End where the Almighty Co●ibet mirabile dictu Aeternam s●ammis Glaciem Aeternoque Rigore Ardentes horrent Sc●puli What Si●ius writes about the Top of Burning Aetna Would it 〈◊〉 be a most Irksome Thing to have a perpetual Winter upon us But let all Unregenerates know That it is always winter with them Consider Si●s Consider whether you have not the signs of the worst winter in the World upon you The Cold of the winter does make things to become Unactive As ●l●●s and the like Instruments will not Go in the winter even the very Metal of them s●metimes is thereby distended so that their Teeth lose their Congruity thus the Owners are sufficiently Listless too And are not you so You can't Come no nor so much as Look to the Lord Jesus Christ for Life tho' the Life of your Souls depend upon it You can't Walk with God or Move with any Activity much less can you Run with an Enlarged Heart in the Way of His Commandments Again The Cold of the winter does make things to become Insensible They who Dy of the Gold after their Hands and Feet are throughly siezed often grow past feeling and fall into a Lethargie Drowsiness wherein and whereof they are like to Dy Irrecoverably And are not you so You don't Hear the Calls of the Gospel tho' the Loudest Thunders are not so loud as the voice of that Silver-Trumpet You don't See the Beauty of you S●●i●ar tho' He be Altogether Lovely You don't fed the ●oad of your Sins tho' that Infinite Load be heavier than Talents and Mount●ins of Lead upon your Souls Is there not a Dead Sleep upon yo● Once more The Cold of the winter brings P●trefaction with it Tho' whilst Bodies continue Frozen the Cold by arresting those Particles from whose Tumultuary Motions Corruption uses to proceed may keep the Ill Operations of the Cold upon the violated Textures of Bodies from appearing so Dead Bodies in Greenland have been preserved thirty years entire from Rottenness yet when once that is removed they commonly and speedily discover how much their Texture had been vitiated by the Cold. And are you Free from That Why then have you such Rotten Communications and such Rotten Imaginations Why are you so much like Open Sepulchres And now what mean you ye Unregenerates that you are not yet weary of this wretched winter Even solid Marbles have sometimes bin broken by the Cold O let it break thy Rocky Heart when thou thinkest of the Cold wherein it is Bewintered It was the Occasional Reflection of a Young Disciple in a bitter cold Morning See the Life of my Brother Nath. Mather p. 40 Jan. 8. Being about to Rise I felt the Cold in a manner Extraordinary which inclined me to seek more warmth in my Bed before I Rose But so extream was the Cold that this was not feasible whereupon I Resolved to Dress my self without any more ado and so going to the Fire in my Clothes I soon became warm enough Turn this O my Soul into an useful Meditation There is a Necessity of my Rising out of my Bed the Bed of Security which I am under the power of and to Live unto Christ and walk in the Light In order hereunto I must put on my Soul the Garments which are to be had from the Lord Jesus Now to Awaken me out of my Sleep my Security I am to set before me the Sun the Gospel of The Sun of Righteousness doth Enlighten my mind and tell me that I was before mufled up in Darkness and that if I continued therein I should starve and perish I am also taught That when men are Convinced of their miserable Condition they will rather Endeavour to Ease and Comfort and Cherish themselves by something in Themselves than put on the Spiritual Garments which the Lord Jesus Christ has provsded for them An Evil to be by me Avoided O that all our Young Ones would argue at such a rate You think of putting off your Conversion till Old Age. Fond Souls Besides the horrible Danger wherein you are of being like those Who Dy in Youth because their Life is among the Unclean This were just as if you should put off all the Business of the Summer until the Depth of Winter Say now in the midst of winter say vain Youths whether you could subsist if you had no Bread but what this Winter were now to be Sow'd or Planted and no Money but what were now to be Laboured or It must be nothing but A Madness in the Heart that can encourage you to Delay your Conversion till the Winter of Old Age do overtake you O do not so play the Grashopper but hear Counsil and Go to the Ant thou Sluggard For persons to be Cold Key-cold yea Death cold about the matters of their Souls while they are in their Youth and think that they will use more warm Endeavours about those matters in their Age This truly is a far odder thing than the Quality of that Fountain of Debris Frigore qui noctis fervet Calefactus Umbris At Solis friget Radiss Glacialis et Igoi 'T is Cold at High Noon Warm at Midnight And then sure they that are already come to Old Age had need make sure of Conversion before it become altogether too late hopeless helpless unattainable My Fathers you are now got into the winter of your Lives Old Age begins to Snow upon your heads your whole face is that of the earth in winter The Jews generally interr'd their Dead under and Oak see 1 Sam. 31.13 pleased perhaps with some such parallel as this that as the Tree seemingly dead in the winter had every Spring an Annual and Notable Resurrection so the Dry Bones of men shall have a new Sap of Life infused into th●m at the Day of Judgment Indeed you that are under the Decays of Age are like the Tree casting of its Leaves in Autumn every thing is now apace dying with you every day you●l wither till your being sunk into the ground make it a perfect winter with you You shall have a Resurrection but O t is high Time for you to gain a good Assurance that it shall be The Resurrection of Life and not The Resurrection of Damnation in a word That nothing may succed but An Eternal Spring The Philosopher said Before Old Age my care was to Live well but now under Old Age my care is to Dy well Truly Now winter is come you have nothing else to take any Care about If you have not in all this while Secured a Saving Interest in the Lord Jesus Christ or if you are not yet Purged from your old Sins most horrid and monstrous has

Fire His Greatness and His Bounty may be seen Sparkling in it Be Thankful and at the same time Let us Entreat of our God That we may be Baptised with the Fire of His Holy Spirit which will make us Fervent in Spirit Serving the Lord. Let us be thankful for Our HOUSES too We are not left now to lodge abroad in the Cold with none but the Ground for our Bed the Snow for our Coverlid and the Sky for our Canopy nor are we obliged unto such Wretched Wigwams as were the best Habitations of the Barbarous Natives that were here before us How well are we lodged in the Winter and neither by Burnings nor by Earthquakes forced out of Doors Be thankful and at the same time let us entreat of our God that we have a Mansion in our Heavenly Fathers house forever The Keenest Winters in the world have been made very tolerable by peoples making some Rooms of their Houses under the Earth and keeping themselves in such subterraneous Rooms But let the Winters which call us to give thanks for our warm Houses on the Earth cause us to be Concerned for An house Eternal in the Heavens And let us be Thankful for our TABLES How many Warm Dishes have we to cherish us whereby we are strengthened against the Cold of the winter And how many Refreshing Draughts to Refocillate our Enfeebled Spirits Be thankful entreat of God that we may be admitted unto His Feast of Fat things full of Marrow and of Wines on the Lees well-Refined the least whereat There will be no taking away We have a Glorious Benefactor in the Heavens by whose Benignity upon Earth we live well all the Winter long and all the Expressions of that Benignity are to be Received with a most hearty Thankfulness I pray let us not be condemned by the very Jewes themselves with whom it has been customary still to make use of their Daily comforts with a Baruk Adonai or Blessed be the Lord. When Job was looking back upon the Good days which he had seen he said in J●● 29 2.4 O that I were as in membe● pas● as in the Days when God preserved me as I was in the dayes of my Youth Some render it 〈◊〉 A 〈◊〉 was in the days of my Winter Quarters 〈◊〉 when the Great Commander of the Universe does Command us into our VVinter Quarters He do's then preserve ●s and by his Light we walk thro' the Darkness of the winter And I would now say O that we were so thankful as we should be for such merciful months V. The Works which God his FORMERLY DONE TOWARDS OURSELVES ought always to be Remembred with us and the VVinter is a very proper Season for that Remembrance Here is the werk of God which we are to know when by the winter He s●●ls up our Hand even the whole VVork of God in the whole course of our Life There have been SMITING VVorks of God which ought seriously to be Remembred with us As it is said in 〈◊〉 3.19.20 Remembring my Affliction and my 〈◊〉 the wormwood and the Gall my soul hath them still in Remembrance and is humbled in me Behold a fit work for the winter Have we not sometim●● been in a winter of adversity wherein this and that S●●●m of Affliction and misery has been hard upon us Now in the winter let it be part of our work to recount every such work of God Now bring to Remembrance all that VVormwood and Gall but what for Truly to see whether you have been such Gainers by all those Chastisements as you should have been and whether the weeds of the Corruptions in your Hearts and of the Disorders in your Lives have been duely Nipt by the Frest of such a Winter But there have also been SMILING Works of God which ought carefully to be Remembred with us It was the Language of a David in Psal 103.2 Bless the Lord O my Soul and forget not all his Benefits To 〈◊〉 God is not the least of the Duties which the Ever blessed God requires of man and all true Davids or men Belov'd by God evermore Love to be Blessing of God If this is to be done At all times as the Psalmist elswhere speaks I am sure it may eminently be done in Winter-times But God is not Really Bless'd or Serv'd if not Heartily and in our Blessing of God the thing is Done to Halves if the whole Soul or all the Powers of the Soul be not engaged in it Indeed such is our Backwardness to the Blessing of God that we had need earnestly to stir and spur and rouse ourselves unto the Doing of it Let us then stir up ourselves till we have got ourselves into an heat at this work in our Winter and know that a Commemoration of Gods Benefits to us is to be one Main Ingredient of Our Thanksgivings to Him Well then Let this be one considerable Stroke of our Winter-work even To run over the Stories of our LIVES by reckoning up the Benefits of God and reflecting on that Goodness and Merry wherewith we have been followed all our Lives What if you should now and then spend whole DAYS OF THANKSGIVING not only when the Authority does usually once in a Winter call the whole Province to observe such a Day but ●l●o in secret places before God by yourselves 〈…〉 Children of God have doubtless Enjoyed 〈…〉 upon Earth by Devoting themselves 〈…〉 an Heavenly and Glorious Exercise and a 〈◊〉 to Devoted has 〈…〉 with some observable Mercy of God However 〈…〉 every Winter Set apart our Time to 〈…〉 the many Benefits of God unto 〈…〉 and utter our Just Hallelujah upon 〈◊〉 ●●tic●e in that Commemoration Particularly The FIRST Article in our Commemoration may be The Benefits of God relating to the Protection which attended our FIRST PRODUCTION Our Formation in the Womb and Reception from the Womb. About our being Shaped in our Mothers we may say Lord I wi●● praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully Made And about our being Taken from our Mothers we may say Lord Thou art He who took me cut of the Womb. As for our Bodies 't is impossible for any thing to be better contrived than they are in the whole Make of them What a sid thing would it have been if these had been monstrously Deformed or Defective in any One of all their Members Truly There are Thousands of Mercies and Wonders in one perfect Child And then as for our Spirits They are certainly the most Noble Things that inhabit this Lower World How doleful had been our plight if these had Lost any of their Faculties were we Fools or Mad But indeed we have Souls capable of a very vast Improvement in the Honouring Enjoying of our God! What shall I say That we are Arriv'd Alive among the Living on the Earth is a Thing full of Marvels if not of Miracles What if we had Expired Embryo's whereby all our Opportunities to Glorify God had been Lost