A50172:53
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.
To bring these things into the case before us.
God has in the Covenant of Grace, promised, That He will be with His people. This we read in Heb. 13. 5. He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. The All-sufficient God, who is HE that answers our Necessities, Let them be what they will; the Unchangeable God, who is HE still, whatever He was to the Saints of old; this God hath said [and how much better is this Autos Eireken than the best Ipse dixit in the world! ⟨p. 11⟩He hath said it, and this] with multiplied Negatives, in the Original, heaped one upon another, I will not, I will not leave thee, I will not, I will not, I will not forsake thee. Well, but God is not with a people in His outward Providence just after the manner therein observed.
God has in the Covenant of Grace, promised, That He will be with His people. This we read in Heb. 13. 5. He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. The Alsufficient God, who is HEE that answers our Necessities, Let them be what they will; the Unchangeable God, who is HE still, whatever He was to the Saints of old; this God hath said [and how much better is this Autos Eireken than the best Ipse dixit in the world! ⟨p. 11⟩He hath said it, and this] with multipli'd Negatives, in the Original, heaped one upon another, I will not, I will not leave thee, I will not, I will not, I will not forsake thee. Well, but God is not with a people in His outward Providence just after the manner therein observed.