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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.
PROPOSITION. I.
It is the Interest, and should be the Desire, of Every people to have the God of Heaven With them. But we are to enquire,
What is implied in that presence of GOD, which we are to be solicitous about?
For Answer to this; There is a Threefold Presence of God, mentioned in the Scriptur• of Truth.
For Answer to this; There is a Threefol• Presence of God, mentioned in the Scriptur• of Truth.
First, God is Naturally present with all Creatures. He is an Immense Being, and no Creature can be without him. The Apostle that argued in the Court at Athens, in Act, 1 27. God is not far from every one of us. No He is near us all, He is with us all. And Pai could have had the Gentiles themselves confessing it; for besides what their Seneca di own, One of their own Poets had said, Jovis omnia plena. It is the Speech of our God, in