IF...I was a member of the General court witnessing this sermon, ‘politically’ the sermon wouldn’t have any influence on me. The idea of the sermon was to change and persuade the views of the people who attended the General Court. It leaned towards changing everyone’s ‘political’ views. Cotton Mather had written Theopolis Americana: An Essay on the Golden Street of the Holy City…What a mouth full. It was published in 1710.
In the beginning, he cited passages from Roman II, he talked about the primary issues, such as God’s casting away of the Jews, the conversion of the Gentiles, and the future conversion of the Jews. He also spoke about the book of Revelations. Mather spoke of and believed in the final judgment. He believed that God would create a new heaven, earth and that Jesus would come down and rule the place. Jesus would rule for a thousand years and the bind of Satan would begin. Mather invoked specific biblical prophecies and applied them to America. He invoked a coming kingdom of God, never mentioning that it must be governed directly by Jesus. The city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt, New England will have a place in it, America will too, the Roman church will be overthrown, and the Jews will be converted. Mather was OBSESSED with this prophecy. …show more content…
He warned against kidnapping men to be slaves.
To go as Pirates, and Catch up poor Negroes, or People of another Land, that have never forfeited Life, or Liberty, and to make them Slaves, and Sell them, is One of the worst kinds of Thievery in the World; and such Per- sons are to be taken for the common Enemies of Mankind; and they that buy them, and use them as Beasts, for their meer Commodity, and betray, or destroy, or neglect their Souls, are fitter to be called, Incarnate Devils, than Christians, tho’ they be no Christians whom they so
In the beginning, he cited passages from Roman II, he talked about the primary issues, such as God’s casting away of the Jews, the conversion of the Gentiles, and the future conversion of the Jews. He also spoke about the book of Revelations. Mather spoke of and believed in the final judgment. He believed that God would create a new heaven, earth and that Jesus would come down and rule the place. Jesus would rule for a thousand years and the bind of Satan would begin. Mather invoked specific biblical prophecies and applied them to America. He invoked a coming kingdom of God, never mentioning that it must be governed directly by Jesus. The city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt, New England will have a place in it, America will too, the Roman church will be overthrown, and the Jews will be converted. Mather was OBSESSED with this prophecy. …show more content…
He warned against kidnapping men to be slaves.
To go as Pirates, and Catch up poor Negroes, or People of another Land, that have never forfeited Life, or Liberty, and to make them Slaves, and Sell them, is One of the worst kinds of Thievery in the World; and such Per- sons are to be taken for the common Enemies of Mankind; and they that buy them, and use them as Beasts, for their meer Commodity, and betray, or destroy, or neglect their Souls, are fitter to be called, Incarnate Devils, than Christians, tho’ they be no Christians whom they so