N00431:130
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.
Have a care (said one of them) that you come not hither out of Curiosity. Better it w•ere for the Wicked that hot Coals of Fire should p••ss through their mouths, than that they should mo•k at the Word of God; they had better swallow a Serpent with all its Poison.
If the Wicked (said one of them) had the same power over God, that they have over you, they would do the same to Him that they do to you: but God will pronounce the Sentence of Malediction on them, and will say, Go into Eternal Fire.
Brethren, (said another of them) Pray hard; and then though we should meet an Army of Enemies at the Door, God will place a million of Angels for your Guard.
Brethren, (said another of them) We ⟨p. 61⟩have always apprehended more the Threats of Men than those of God, else what happened to us, would not have happened.