A50172:40
The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the…
The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the governor, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England on May 23, 1690 by Cotton Mather.The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the governour, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England on May 23, 1690 by Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris, 1690
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.
PROPOSITION. I.
It is the Interest, and should be the Desire, of Every people to have the God of Heaven With them. But we are to enquire,
What is implied in that presence of GOD, which we are to be solicitous about?
For Answer to this; There is a Threefold Presence of God, mentioned in the Scripture of Truth.
First, God is Naturally present with all Creatures. He is an Immense Being, and no Creature can be without him. The Apostle thus argued in the Court at Athens, in Act, 17. 27. God is not far from every one of us. No, He is near us all, He is with us all. And Paul could have had the Gentiles themselves confessing it; for besides what their Seneca did own, One of their own Poets had said, Jovis omnia plena. It is the Speech of our God, in