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The wonderful works of God commemorated praises bespoke for the God of heaven in…
The wonderful works of God commemorated praises bespoke for the God of heaven in a thanksgiving sermon delivered on Decemb. 19, 1689 : containing reflections upon the excellent things done by the great God ... : to which is added A sermon preached unto a convention of the Massachuset-colony in New-England ... / by Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by S. Green & sold by Joseph Browning, 1690
A Passage in Mr. Flavels Thanksgiving-Sermon, Preached Febr. 14. 1688
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.
A Passage in Mr. Flavel's Thanksgiving-Sermon, Preached Febr. 14. 1688
A Passage in Mr. Flavels Thanksgiving-Sermon, Preached Febr. 14. 1688
Shall we Ingratefully Overlook the Beginnings of Mercy, as small and Inconsiderable Things? Shall we say, All this i• Nothing, because we have not yet All that we would have? God forbid. When Israel was in Egypt, then a Little Straw would have been Esteemed as a great Mercy; but afterwards Quails and Manna were Despised. Brethren, Three or Four Years ago, you would have Accounted it a Special Mercy, to have Enjoyed an Hour or Two together in Prayer or to have had a Little Spiritual Bread Handed to you, behind your Enemies Backs; and is it nothing in your Eyes this Day, to behold the Worship of God at Liberty? Yea, to see the Success of the Gospel, in bringing home of many Souls to Christ? The Fears of Pottery vanished? The Witnesses Risen; the Tenth-part of the City fallen; and such a prospect of far greater and more glorious Things before your Eyes? O let not the Consolations of the Almighty seem small.
SHall we Ingratefully Overlook the Beginnings of Mercy, as small and Incon•siderable Things? Shall we say, All this i• Nothing, because we have not yet All that we would have? God forbid. When Israe• was in Egypt, then a Little Straw would have been Esteemed as a great Mercy; but after•wards Quails and Manna were Despised. Brethren, Three or Four Years ago, you would have Accounted it a Special Mercy, to have Enjoy'd an Hour or Two together in Prayer or to have had a Little Spiritual Bread Handed to you, behind your Enemies Backs; and is it nothing in your Eyes this Day, to behol the Worship of God at Liberty? Yea, to see the Success of the Gospel, in bringing home of many Souls to Christ? The Fears of Potery vanished? The Witnesses Risen; the Tenth-part of the City fallen; and such a prospect of far greater and more gloriou Things before your Eyes? O let not the Consolations of the Almighty seem small.