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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.
The Preface,
The Occasion which first produced the following Sermon, cannot be expressed in better Terms, that those which were used by the Worthy Gentlemen that were the Conservators of our peace, in their humble Address to Their Majesties, bearing Date, May 20th 1689. Wherein among other things they say,
THe Occasion which first produced the following Sermon, cannot be expressed in better Terms, that those which were used by the Worthy Gentlemen that were the Conservators of our peace, in their humble Address to Their Majesties, bearing Date, May 20th 1689. Wherein among other things they say,
—Your three several Princely Declarations, Encouraging the English Nation, to cast off the Yoke of a Tyrannical and Arbitrary Power, which at that time they were held under, have occurred unto the View and Consideration of the people in this Country, being themselves under alike (if not worse) evil and unhappy Circumstances with their Brethren in England; First by being unrighteously deprived of their Charter-Government, & Privileges, without any Hearing or Trial, and under utter impossibilities of having Notice of any Writ served upon them; and then followed with the Exercise of an illegal and Arbitrary power over them, which had almost ruined a late flourishing Country, and was become very grievous & intolerable; besides the growing miseries, ⟨image ?⟩and daily fears of a total Subversion, by enemies at home, and Invasion by foreign force; the people thereby excited, to imitate so noble and heroic an Example, being strongly and unanimously spirited, to intend their own safeguard and Defence, resolved to seize upon and secure some of the principal persons concerned, and most active in the ill management, of the illegal and arbitrary Government, set over them by Commission. Accordingly upon the eighteenth day of April, last past, arose as one man, seized upon Sr. E. Andros the late Governor, and other of the evil instruments, and have secured them for what Justice, Order from your Majesties shall direct.—Thus that Address.