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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
Postscript: A Postscript. Endeavouring the Satisfaction of them that are Inquisitive after the late…
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.
The Words of God are True, in the Notice which they have given us, That the Works of God are Great; and certainly no Age did ever afford Instances of Greater than those which are Now the matters of Discourse and Wonder throughout the World.
THe Words of God are True, in the Notice which they have given us, That the Works of God are Great; and certainly no Age did ever afford Instances of Greater than those which are Now the matters of Discourse and Wonder throughout the World.
Among the Marvellous Things which at this Day strike the minds of Men with a just Astonishment, there are not many more considerable, than those of the late Ecstasies in France. Concerning which we have undoubted Information;
Among the Marvellous Things which at this Day strike the minds of Men with a just Astonishment, there are not many more considerable, than those of the late Extasies in France. Concerning which we have undoubted Information;
That about the beginning of the Year 1688: a young Shepherdess in the Province of Dauphin, fell into unaccountable Trances, wherein tho' the standers by, pulled her, struck her, cut her and burnt her, yet it was impossible to awaken her. In this condition, her custom was to utter many Divine things; ⟨p. 58⟩and though she could neither write nor read, nor could speak any Language but that of her Country, which has nothing of pure French in it, yet she now Prayed and Preached at a most prodigious rate, and Sang Psalms after the manner of the French Protestant Congregations: and when Auditors that could thereby be edified, were present, she expressed herself, not only in French of a Dialect most Exact and Correct, but also having occasion to speak Latin, in the Refutation of the Romish Superstitions, she did it with a distinctness that filled all the Hearers with Admiration- And though when she came out of her sleep, she remembered not what had befallen her; yet she had her wits thereby made more Sparkling and Refined.