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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.
Those new French Apostles, the Dragoons, quickly did their utmost, for the suppression of this Rare Thing; but behold the event! It was not long before other persons fell into the like Trances, with Symptoms not unlike to those which had attended her; and the Number increased unto several Hundreds of these Prophets, if I may call them so? whereof even the Kings own Guards afforded One. And at length some that were Awake were carried forth unto Rapturous Exercises with an Eloquence and Energy equal to that of those that were Asleep.
Those new French Apostles, the Dragoons, quickly did their utmost, for the suppression of this Rare Thing; but behold the event! It was not long before other persons fell into the like Trances, with Symptoms not unlike to those which had attended her; and the Number encreased unto several Hundreds of these Prophets, if I may call them so? whereof even the Kings own Guards afforded One. And at length some that were Awake were carried forth unto Rapturous Exercises with an Eloquence and Energy equal to that of those that were Asleep.
They are People of all Ages and Sexes; but the greatest part of them are Boys and Girls, from six or seven to five and twenty years of age; and persons very old; all of them the meaner sort of People: but of Families Exemplary for their good living; the whole affair being indeed so prodigious, that the most obstinate Sadducees in the Kingdom confess it, A natural Distemper directed by Providence to procure the Repentance of a sinful World.
They are People of all Ages and Sexes; but the greatest part of them are Boyes and Girles, from six or seven to five and twenty years of age; and persons very old; all of them the meaner sort of People: but of Families Exemplary for their good living; the whole affair being indeed so prodigious, that the most obstinate Saddu•cees in the Kingdom confess it, A natural Distemper directed by Providence to procure the Repentance of a sinful World.