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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.
And then, Consider the Prospect of it. Fo• what may be now hoped for, but a Protestant KING, Just and Ruling in the Fear […] God, as a morning without Clouds unto th• Protestant World! We now see upon th• British Throne, A KING, whose unpara•lel'd zeal for the Church of the Lord Jes•• at the Lowest Ebb, hath made Him the Phoenix of this Age; A KING in whom Co••rage and Prudence make a Temper which […] to be no where seen but in the Greatest Heroes; A KING that scornfully rejected […] Sovereignty over his own Country, wh• he might have have had it, by betraying […] ⟨p. 37⟩A KING, that uses to say, That be can cannot have so unworthy a Conception of God, […] so base Thoughts of Mankind, as to believe •hat any one person should be designed by the Almighty King, to trample and oppress a Society •laced under him; A KING, that so abhors •ll Persecution, that when he accepted the Crown of Scotland, he Explained a clause •n the Coronation Oath, with this Proviso, […] will not be obliged to be a Persecutor: A KING, that has twice had a Crown of Light, appearing in the Heavens over his Principality to signalize him unto the World: With him we see A QUEEN, whose Virtues •ad long since Enthroned her in the Hearts of the whole English Nation: We do not now see a Romish Delilah for the Philistines to Plough withal; nor is our Solomon under •he Temptations which the greatest Monarchs have sometimes fell before. What can be hoped for, but that the Chains with which the Tyrannous and Treacherous Grand Seignior of France had Fettered Europe, will now be broken? and that the most monstrous Tiger in the world, having the Forces of Three Kingdoms let loose upon him, while he is Attacked with such a General Storm on every side as was never seen before, must quickly either perish, or proclaim Liberty for that Religion which he has out done