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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.
To bring these things into the case before us.
God has in the Covenant of Grace, promised, That He will be with His people. This we read in Heb. 13.5. He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. The All-sufficient God, who is HE that answers our Necessities, Let them be what they will; the Unchangeable God, who is HE still, whatever He was to the Saints of old; this God hath said [and how much better is this Au•os •ireken than the best Ipse dixit in the world! ⟨p. 11⟩He hath said it, and this] with multiply Negatives, in the Original, heaped one upon another, I will not, I will not leave thee, I wi•• not, I will not, I will not […] sake thee. Wel• but God is not with a people in His outward Providence just after the manner there in observed▪
God has in the Covenant of Grace, promised, That He will be with His people. This we read in Heb. 13.5. He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. The Alsufficient God, who is HEE that answers our Necessities, Let them be what they will; the Vnchangeable God, who is HE still, whatever He was to the Saints of old; this God hath said [and how much better is this Au•os •ireken than the best Ipse dixit in the world! ⟨p. 11⟩He hath said it, and this] with multipli• Negatives, in the Original, heaped one upo• another, I will not, I will not leave thee, I wi not, I will not, I will not sake thee. Wel but God is not with a people in His outward Providence just after the manner there in observed