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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
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The Way to PROSPERITY.
It is the Word of the Eternal GOD in II. Chron. XV. 2. Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah, and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with Him.
IT is a Remarkable Occasion which has brought these Words to be the Subject of our present Meditations; but it was much more a Remarkable Occasion which these Words were first uttered upon. We find them in the Sacred Book of Chronicles, which Chronicles are not the Civil Records, in other-parts of the Bible referred unto; but an Inspired History of things that concerned the Line of Christ and the Church of God for five hundred more than Three Thousand ⟨p. 2⟩years. It seems as an Epitome of the Whole, (for so tis in Jerome's Language) to be written as late as the Last of all the Books in the Old Testament; and the Hebrew Bibles give it a place accordingly. The Greeks choose to entitle it, The Book of things (else where) passed by; because, as Lyra notes, according to the Rule of our Saviour, It gathers Fragments that nothing may be lost; and if there were nothing else but the Story which affords our Text unto us, to justify that Appellation, it were enough: 'tis a Story passed by in the Book of Kings; but worthy to be had in everlasting Remembrance.
IT is a Remarkable Occasion which has brought these Words to be the Subject of our present Meditations; but it was much more a Remarkable Occasion which these Words were first uttered upon. We find them in the Sacred Book of Chronicles, which Chronicles are not the Civil Records, in other-parts of the Bible refer'd unto; but an Inspired History of things that concerned the Line of Christ and the Church of God for five hundred more than Three Thousand