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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.
First, The Preface of it; and that is very awful and earnest: Hear ye me Asa, and all Judah, and Benjamin. As he was probably none of the greatest, so tis like he was none of the oldest men; for it seems by the eighth verse, that his Father was yet alive, & present at this time. Yet being to speak in the Name of the great and eternal God, he expects, he demands the attention of the ⟨p. 4⟩whole Army to him.
First, The Proeface of it; and that is very awful and earnest: Hear ye me Asa, and all Judah, and Benjamin. As he was probably none of the greatest, so tis like he was none of the oldest men; for it seems by the eighth verse, that his Father was yet alive, & present at this time. Yet being to speak in the Name of the great and eternal God, he expects, he demands the attention of the ⟨p. 4⟩whole Army to him.
Secondly, the Design of it; and that is, to declare both the Rise and Use of their late Prosperity. The Lord is with you, while you you are with Him; or as the Vulgar Latin has it, Inasmuch as you have been with him. What follows, is but an Explication, and Amplification of this. He saw they were taken up with various Businesses and Contrivances; they had their Enemies under Hatches, and their minds were full of Thoughts and Cares, What to do next? But he calls them off to acknowledge the Presence of God, as the cause of their coming off so well in their late Action, and above all things to obtain & secure the presence of God, that they might come off as well, in in their future Enterprises.
Secondly, the Design of it; and that is, to decclare both the Rise and Use of their late Prosperity. The Lord is with you, while you you are with Him; or as the Vulgar Latin has it, Inasmuch as you have been with him. What follows, is but an Explication, and Amplification of this. He saw they were taken up with various Businesses and Contrivances; they had their Enemies under Hatches, and their minds were full of Thoughts and Cares, What to do next? But he calls them off to acknowledge the Presence of God, as the cause of their coming off so well in their late Action, and above all things to obtain & secure the presence of God, that they might come off as well, in in their future Enterprises.