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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.
II. The late Revolutions among our selves, have also been attended with some Excellent ⟨p. 42⟩Things, where of we may say, The finger of God is here! Indeed nothing in the World could more exactly imitate and resemble the late circumstances of our Mother England than the Revolutions here, in all the steps thereof; and this, though we understood not one another. This was from the Excellent operations of that God who turns a Wheel in a wheel! And what shall we now say? The Judgments of God have been upon us heretofore; but this poor Land has cried unto the Lord, and the Lord has heard and saved. And the Enemies of New-England have still perished before the Rebukes of that God who is our King, our Lord, our Lawgiver: It has been as dangerous to seek the Hurt of this poor Country, as ever it was to annoy the Piccardines of old; and they that have stretched out their long Arms to make us miserable, have brought upon their own Heads the vengeance of the Temple. But we were grown a worldly, Sensual, Factious People; and then our God fulfilled unto us that Word of His, I will punish you yet seven times for your Iniquity.
II. The late Revolutions among our selves, have also been attended with some Excellent ⟨p. 42⟩Things, where of we may say, The finger of God is here! Indeed nothing in the World could more exactly imitate and resemble the late circumstances of our Mother England than the Revolutions here, in all the steps thereof; and this, though we understood not one another. This was from the Excellent operations of that God who turns a Wheel in a wheel! And what shall we now say? The Judgments of God have been upon us heretofore; but this poor Land has cry'd unto the Lord, and the Lord has heard and sav'd. And the Enemies of New-England have still perished before the Rebukes of that God who is our King, our Lord, our Lawgiver: It has been as dangerous to seek the Hurt of this poor Countrey, as ever it was to annoy the Piccardines of old; and they that have stretched out their long Arms to make us miserable, have brought upon their own Heads the vengeance of the Temple. But we were grown a worldly, Sensual, Factious People; and then our God fulfill'd unto us that Word of His, I will punish you yet seven times for your Iniquity.