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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.
To bring these things into the case before us.
God has in the Covenant of Grace, promised, That He will be with His people. This we read in Heb. 13. 5. He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. The All sufficient God, who is HE that answers our Necessities, Let them be what they will; the Unchangeable God, who is a HE still, whatever He was to the Saints of old; this God hath said [and how much better is this Autos E•reken than the best Ipse dixit in the world! ⟨p. 11⟩He hath said it, and this] with multiplied Negatives, in the Original, heaped one upon another, I will not, I will not leave thee, I will not, I will not, I will not forsake thee. Well, but God is not with a people in His outward Providence just after the manner therein observed.
God has in the Covenant of Grace, promised, That He will be with His people. This we read in Heb. 13. 5. He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. The Alsufficient God, who is HEE that answers our Necessities, Let them be what they will; the Unchangeable God, who is a HE still, whatever He was to the Saints of old; this God hath said [and how much better is this Autos E•reken than the best Ipse dixit in the world! ⟨p. 11⟩He hath said it, and this] with multipli'd Negatives, in the Original, heaped one upon another, I will not, I will not leave thee, I will not, I will not, I will not forsake thee. Well, but God is not with a people in His outward Providence just after the manner therein observed.