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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.
That Royal Charter being the sole Inducement and Encouragement unto our Fathers and predecessors, to come over into this Wilderness, and to plant the same at their own Cost and Charge.
In Answer to this Address, His Majesty in a most gracious Letter, bearing Date the 12th of August 1689. unto the Government here, uses these Expressions,
Whereas you give Us to understand, that you have taken upon you the present care of the Government, until you should receive Our Order therein, We do hereby Authori••e and ⟨image ?⟩Empower you to Continue in Our Name, your Care in the Administration thereof, and Preservation of the Peace, until We shall have taken such Resolutions, and given such Directions for the more orderly Settlement of the said Government, as shall most conduce to Our Service, and the Security and Satisfaction of Our Subjects within that Our Colony.
It was in the time of our greatest Heats and Straits, and at a time appointed for a General Assembly of this great Colony, that the ensuing Sermon was expected from me. Through the Grace of God, the Sermon Then was not altogether unacceptable to some who desired the Publication of it. But I gave not my full Consent unto their Desire, until now, they had an Opportunity (with their Renewed Importunity) to join in with another Discourse which they have obtained from me; and tho' the little Differences which were among us, when the Sermon was preached, are now so well Composed, yet I flatter any self with an opinion, that the things here insisted on, will not, should not be judged Unseasonable.