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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
A Passage in Mr. Flavels Thanksgiving-Sermon, Preached Febr.14. 1688.
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A Passage in Mr. Flavel's Thanksgiving-Sermon, Preached Febr.14. 1688.
A Passage in Mr. Flavels Thanksgiving-Sermon, Preached Febr.14. 1688.
Shall we Ingratefully Overlook the Beginnings of Mercy, as small and Inconsiderable Things? Shall we say, All this is Nothing, because we have not yet All that we would have? God forbid. When Israel was in Egypt, then a Little Straw would have been Esteemed as a great Mercy; but afterwards Quails and Manna were Despised. Brethren, Three or Four Years ago, you would have Accounted it a Special Mercy, to have Enjoyed an Hour or Two together in Prayer, or to have had a Little Spiritual Bread Handed to you, behind your Enemies Backs; and is it nothing in your Eyes this Day, to behold the Worship of God at Liberty? Yea, to see the Success of the Gospel, in bringing home of many Souls to Christ? The Fears of Popery vanished? The Witnesses Risen; the Tenth-part of the City fallen; and such a prospect of far greater and more glorious Things before your Eyes? O let not the Consolations of the Almighty seem small.
SHall we Ingratefully Overlook the Beginnings of Mercy, as small and Inconsiderable Things? Shall we say, All this is Nothing, because we have not yet All that we would have? God forbid. When Israel was in Egypt, then a Little Straw would have been Esteemed as a great Mercy; but afterwards Quails and Manna were Despised. Brethren, Three or Four Years ago, you would have Accounted it a Special Mercy, to have Enjoy'd an Hour or Two together in Prayer, or to have had a Little Spiritual Bread Handed to you, behind your Enemies Backs; and is it nothing in your Eyes this Day, to behold the Worship of God at Liberty? Yea, to see the Success of the Gospel, in bringing home of many Souls to Christ? The Fears of Popery vanished? The Witnesses Risen; the Tenth-part of the City fallen; and such a prospect of far greater and more glorious Things before your Eyes? O let not the Consolations of the Almighty seem small.