Fair weather. Or Considerations to dispel the clouds, & allay the storms, of discontent: in a discourse which with an entertaining variety, both of argument and history, layes open, the nature and evil of that pernicious vice, and offers diverse antidotes against it; / by Cotton Mather. ; Whereto there is prefixed a catalogue of sins against all the commandments, whereof all that would make thorough work of repentance, especially at this day when the God of heaven so loudly calls for it, should make their serious and sensible confessions before the Lord; with an humble and fervent address unto this whole people, there-about.

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Author:	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Title:	Fair weather. Or Considerations to dispel the clouds, & allay the storms, of discontent: in a discourse which with an entertaining variety, both of argument and history, layes open, the nature and evil of that pernicious vice, and offers diverse antidotes against it; / by Cotton Mather. ; Whereto there is prefixed a catalogue of sins against all the commandments, whereof all that would make thorough work of repentance, especially at this day when the God of heaven so loudly calls for it, should make their serious and sensible confessions before the Lord; with an humble and fervent address unto this whole people, there-about.
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PREFACE

AN Humble and Faithful TESTIMONY For God, unto the Children of my People.

A Sacred Exorcism, upon Sinful DISCONTENT. Uttered on December 24. 1691. at the Lecture in Boston.

A General Admonition.

Now for, I. The Nature of DIS|CONTENT.

II. The Evil of DISCONTENT.

III An ANTIDOTE against the Sin of Discontent.

A NARRATIVE of a Magical Accident, which hap|p while the foregoing Treatise, was in the Press; not impertinently Introduced here, to give a further Edge and Force unto the Design: of the Treatise.

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