N00431:106
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
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.
Compare our Condition with that of ⟨p. 46⟩them in Hungary. The Protestant Churches there, have be•n made a Desolation, and it would break an heart of Stone to Hear, what both Pastors and People have endured. Should you see one of the poor Confessors come out of an hideous Dit•geon full of T•ads, and S•akes, and Excrements; with their very Throats putrefied, their Teeth fallen out, and their Eyes gone into their Heads, and their Flash mangled in a thousand places, you could not forbear preaching a Sermon on, Thankfulness to God Imagine your selves under the continual Executions of the most witty Devils, and all that shall but relieve you with a bit of Bread, torn to pieces by the hand of an Hangman, and you will see what has befallen the most venerable Ministers of that Kingdom, until the Protestant Religion has been almost extirpated there, and this after the Oaths of their Monarch to support it.
Compare our Condition with that of ⟨p. 46⟩them in Hungary. The Protestant Churches there, have be•n made a Desolation, and it would break an heart of Stone to Hear, what both Pa•tors and People have endured. Should you see one of the poor Confessors come out of an hideous Dit•geon full of T•ads, and S•akes, and Excrements; with their very Throats putrified, their Teeth fallen out, and their Eyes gone into their Heads, and their Flash mangled in a thousand places, you could not forbear preaching a Sermon on, Thankfulness to God Imagine your selves under the continual Executions of the most witty Divels, and all that shall but relieve you with a bit of Bread, torn to pieces by the hand of an Hangman, and you will see what has befallen the most venerable Ministers of that Kingdome, until the Protestant Religion has been almost extirpated there, and this after the Oathes of their Monarch to support it.