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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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Proposition. II.
The Presence of God with a people in His Outward Providence, has a diverse Foundation and Continuance from His Presence with His People, in the Covenant of Grace. As tis well ⟨p. 10⟩observed by the great Owen, in a Discourse unto the Parliament, These two are to be carefully distinguished. We must not reflect on the Stability of the New-Covenant, for what Variety and Sovereignty we may see in providential Dispensations, toward this and that people in the world. This matter seems determined by David, in 2. Sam. 23. 5. Tho' my house be not so with God, yet He has made with me an Everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things and sure. David had promises for the prosperity of his House; He had also the sure mercies of the Covenant made over to him in the promises of God. These promises had now a different Establishment; The Sure mercies of the Covenant, were unto him more Absolute and Immutable; but the prosperity of his House, we find under another Law, and subject unto a dreadful Alteration.
The Presence of God with a people in His Outward Providence, has a diverse Foundation and Continuance from His Presence with His People, in the Covenant of Grace. As tis well ⟨p. 10⟩observed by the great Owen, in a Discourse unto the Parliament, These two are to be carefully distinguished. We must not reflect on the Stability of the New-Covenant, for what Variety and Soveraignty we may see in providential Dispensations, toward this and that people in the world. This matter seems determined by David, in