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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.
—Finding an Absolute Necessity of Civil Government, the People generally manifested their Desires and Importunity once and again ⟨image ?⟩That the Governor, Deputy Governor and Assistants, chosen and sworn in May 1686. according to Charter & Court as then formed, would assume the Government;—
—Finding an Absolute Necessity of Civil Government, the People generally manifested their Desires and Importunity once and again ⟨image ?⟩That the Governour, Deputy Governour and Assistants, chosen and sworn in May 1686. according to Charter & Court as then formed, would assume the Government;—
—the said Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Assistants, then Resident in the Colony, did Consent to accept the present Care and Government of this people, according to the Rules of the Charter, for the preservation of the Peace and common safety, and the putting forth further Acts of Authority, upon Emergencies: until by Direction from England, there should be an orderly Settlement; which we hope will Restore us to the full Exercise thereof, as formerly; notwithstanding we have, for some time, been most unrighteously, and injuriously deprived of it.
—the said Governour, Deputy-Governour, and Assistents, then Resident in the Colony, did Consent to accept the present Care and Government of this people, according to the Rules of the Charter, for the preservation of the Peace and common safety, and the putting forth further Acts of Authority, upon Emergencies: until by Direction from England, there should be an orderly Settlement; which we hope will Restore us to the full Exercise thereof, as formerly; notwithstanding we have, for some time, been most unrighteously, and injuriously deprived of it.