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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
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.
Among the Marvellous Things which at this Day strike the minds of Men with a just Astonishment, there are not many more considerable, than those of the late Ecstasies in France. Concerning, which we have undoubted Information;
Among the Marvellous Things which at this Day strike the minds of Men with a just Astonishment, there are not many more considerable, than those of the late Extasies in France. Concerning, which we have undoubted Information;
That about the beginning of the Year 1688: a young Shepherdess in the Province of Dauphin, fell into unaccountable Trances, wherein tho' the standers by, pulled her, struck her, cut her and burnt her, yet it was impossible to awaken her. In this condition, her custom was to utter many Divine things; ⟨p. 58⟩and though she could neither write nor read, nor could speak any Language but that of her Country, which has nothing of pure French in it, yet she now Prayed and Preached at a most prodigious rate, and Sang Psalms after the manner of the French Protestant Congregations: and when Auditors that could thereby be edified, were present, she expressed herself, not only in French of a Dialect most Exact and Correct, but also having occasion to speak Latin, in the Refutation of the Romish Superstitions, she did it with a distinctness that filled all the Hearers with Admiration. And though when she came out of her sleep, she remembered not what had befallen her; yet she had her wits thereby made more Sparkling and Refined.
That about the beginning of the Year 1688: a young Shepardess in the Province of Dauphine, fell into unaccountable Trances, wherein tho' the standers by, pull'd her, struck her, cut her and burnt her, yet it was impossible to awaken her. In this condition, her custome was to utter many Divine things; ⟨p. 58⟩and though she could neither write nor read, nor could speak any Language but that of her Countrey, which has nothing of pure French in it, yet she now Pray'd and Preach'd at a most prodigious rate, and Sang Psalms after the manner of the French Protestant Congregations: and when Auditors that could thereby be edified, were present, she expressed herself, not only in French of a Dialect most Exact and Correct, but also having occasion to speak Latin, in the Refutation of the Romish Superstitions, she did it with a distinctness that fill'd all the Hearers with Admiration. And though when she came out of her sleep, she remembred not what had befallen her; yet she had her wits thereby made more Sparkling and Refined.