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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
PRAISES Bespoke for the GOD of Heaven, In a Thanksgiving SERMON. › APPLICATION.
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Compare our Condition with that of them in Germany. The French King has there made even the Popish Provinces themselves a Stage of Blood, and laid all in Ashes for many Leagues together. He has given the Sun for his Device upon many of his Coins; and by the Fiery Destructions which his Bombs have made, he has given us cause to suspect whether he be not the ⟨p. 47⟩Sun in the fourth Vial, that has power to Scorch men with Fire. Imagine that you were put under the French Contributions, and not only Robbed of all you have in the World, but also driven like so many Cattle before their Slaughterers. Imagine your Towns laid all in Heaps, and your Persons obnoxious to all manner of Rapine and Murders from the worst of Harpies: this is what thousands are now feeling of.
Compare our Condition with that of them in Germany. The French King has there made even the Popish Provinces themselves a Stage of Blood, and laid all in Ashes for many Leagues together. He has given the Sun for his Device upon many of his Coines; and by the Fiery Destructions which his Bombs have made, he has given us cause to suspect whether he be not the ⟨p. 47⟩Sun in the fourth Vial, that has power to Scorch men with Fire. Imagine that you were put under the French Contributions, and not only Rob'd of all you have in the World, but also driven like so many Cattle before their Slaughterers. Imagine your Towns laid all in H•aps, and your Persons obnoxious to all manner of Rapine and Murders from the worst of H•rpyes: this is what thousands are now feeling of.
Compare our Condition with that of them in ••rance. Except in the matter of our Sabbaths, what are we better than the People of God in that rueful Country? But all the Bloody Butcheries and Cruelties committed in the By-past Ages, are mere Trifles in comparison of what that People have of late endured, and this after Faith given often enough unto the contrary. After they had gone thorough intolerable vexations in all those things that they had any kindness for, they have been at last given up into the claws of the merciless Dragoons: and were all the Devils of Hell Incarnate, they could not invent more or wors Tortures, than these Dragons inflict upon persons of all sorts, till they have compelled them to abjure the Truth of God; and thus all the Flocks of the Lord Jesus have been worried and Ruined there. Imagine a Swarm