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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
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 Preface,
The Occasion which first produced the following Sermon, cannot be expressed in better Terms, than those which were used by the Worthy Gentlemen that were the Conservators of our peace, in their humble Address to Their Majesties, bearing Date, May 20th 1689. Wherein among other things they say,
THe Occasion which first produced the following Sermon, cannot be expressed in better Terms, than those which were used by the Worthy Gentlemen that were the Conservators of our peace, in their humble Address to Their Majesties, bearing Date, May 20th 1689. Wherein among other things they say,
— Your three several Princely Declarations, Encouraging the English Nation, to cast off the Yoke of a Tyrannical and Arbitrary Power, which at that time they were held under, have occurred unto the View and Consideration of the people in this Country, being themselves under alike (if not worse) evil and unhappy Circumstances with their Brethren in England; First by being unrighteously deprived of their Charter-Government, & Privileges, without any Hearing or Trial, and under utter impossibilities of having Notice of any Writ served upon them; and then followed with the Exercise of an illegal and Arbitrary power over them, which had almost ruined a late flourishing Country, and was become very grievous & intolerable; besides the growing miseries, ⟨image 39⟩