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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.
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.
Brethren, (said another of them) We ⟨p. 61⟩have alwayes apprehended more the Threats of Men than those of God, else what happened to us, would not have happened.
One of them said, Your Riches have ruined you, and your Prayers must Relieve you.
One of them said, I am afraid the first Persecution will make you return to Mass again; but O suffer your selves rather to be first out in pieces. Alas! Jesus Christ has poured out all his Blood for us, and we can't endure the prick of a pin for Him.
To the Apostates, they generally so conclude their Warnings; You have sinned against the Father, you have sinned against the Son, take heed of sinning against the Holy Ghost, for God will then pardon you no more.