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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
PRAISES Bespoke for the GOD of Heaven, In a Thanksgiving SERMON. › APPLICATION.
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 first and great and most comprehensive matter of our Praises is, The Happy accession of their Majesties, King William, and Queen Mary, To the Throne of the Three Kingdoms.
The first and great and most comprehensive matter of our Praises is, The Happy accession of their Maiesties, King William, and Queen Mary, To the Throne of the Three Kingdoms.
This was a Thing in all the parts of so Circumstanced, a• to make all men […] ⟨p. 33⟩This is the Lords Doing, and it is Marvellous in our Eyes! It made a Second EIGHTY EIGHT out-shining that in the former Century. For,
This was a Thing in all the parts of so Circumstanced, a• to make all men 〈…〉 ⟨p. 33⟩This is the Lords Doing, and it is Marvellous in our Eyes! It made a Second EIGHTY EIGHT out-shining that in the former Century. For,
Consider, the Season of it. It was when the Protestant Religion was Lying at the Stake; and foreign Popish Writers did not stick to tell the World in Print, That there was a private League made between two of the most Potent Monarchs in Christendom, (which one of their own Ambassadors also▪ did in a manner own) for the Extirpation of Heresy; and that not only the subduing of Holland, but also the Enslaving of England were steps to be taken in order thereunto. It was when the Indefatigable Drudges of the Papacy, who had more than Ten years before declared, We have here a Mighty Work upon our Hands, no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms, and by that perhaps the utter subduing a pestilent Heresy, which has domiereda long time over a great part of this Northern World; whereof never such Hopes as now; had now got all the Advantageous Posts of the Nation into their Hands, and had so modelled all their Business that they counted themselves out of the Reach of chance for ever; and were even ready like Haman to cast Lots for a Lucky Day to throw all their Visors off. It was when the Fundamental