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The wonderful works of God commemorated. Praises bespoke for the God in heaven in…
The wonderful works of God commemorated. Praises bespoke for the God in heaven in a thanksgiving sermon; delivered on Decemb. 19. 1689. Containing just reflections upon the excellent things done by the great God, more generally in creation and redemption, and in the government of the world; but more particularly in the remarkable revolutions of providence which are every where the matter of present observation. With a postscript giving an account of some very stupendous accidents, which have lately happened in France. / By Cotton Mather. ; To which is added a sermon preached unto the convention of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England, with a short narrative of several prodigies, which New-England hath of late had the alarms of heaven in.
Boston: printed by S. Green & sold by Joseph Browning, 1690
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AT THE CONVENTION of the Governor and Council, and Representatives of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay.
AT THE CONVENTION of the Governour and Council, and Representatives of the Colony of the Massachusets Bay.
IT having pleased the God of Heaven to mitigate His many frowns upon us in the Summer past, with a mixture of some very signal Favours, and in the midst of wrath so far to remember Mercy; That our Indian Enemies have had a check put upon their Designs of Blood and Spoil; That others have not seen their Desires accomplished upon us; And that we have such hopes of our God's adding yet more perfection to our Deliverances: Inasmuch also, as the great God hath of late raised up such a Defence to the Protestant Religion and Interest abroad in the World, especially in the happy Accession of Their Majesties our Sovereigns, KING William and QUEEN Mary to the Throne.
IT having pleased the God of Heaven to mitigate His many frowns upon us in the Summer past, with a mixture of some very signal Favours, and in the midst of wrath so far to remember Mercy; That our Indian Enemies have had a check put upon their Designs of Blood and Spoil; That others have not seen their Desires accomplished upon us; And that we have such hopes of our God's adding yet more perfection to our Deliverances: Inasmuch also, as the great God hath of late raised up such a Defenoe to the Protestant Religion and Interest abroad in the World, especially in the happy Accession of Their Majesties our Sovereigns, KING William and QUEEN Mary to the Throne.
It is therefore Ordered, that Thursday the nineteenth instant, he kept as a Day of THANKSGIVING throughout this Colony; And all Servile Labour Labour on said Day is hereby inhibited: And the several Ministers and Assemblies are Exhorted to Observe the same, by Celebrating the just Praises of the Almighty God, Of whose tender Mercies it is that we are not Consumed.