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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.
Secondly, A people should be with God by Activity [For] Him. To be For God is to be with God. It was once the Summons given in Exod. 32. 26. Who is one the Lords side? And all the Sons of Levi gathered themselves; they were with God in doing so. Tis a Summons given to the world in every Generation, Who is on the Lords side? They that obey the Summons are with the Lord. A people full of Contrivances for the Interest of God, are with Him. A people should set themselves to advance the Glory of God; they should own His Truths, and His Ways; and endeavour to draw all about them into the Acknowledgement of the same. A people should propound the Glory of God as their chief End and the main Scope of all that they do; and they should think much of no Cost, no Pains, nor (tho, as a Martyr once expressed himself, tho every hair on their heads were a life) should a Thousand Lives be dear unto them, in the promoting of it. Then are they with the Lord; they are so, when God can say of them, as in Isa. 43. 10. Ye are my Witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant.
Secondly, A people should be with God by Activity [For] Him. To be For God is to be with God. It was once the Summons given in Exod. 32. 26. Who is one the Lords side? And all the Sons of Levi gathered themselves; they were with God in doing so. Tis a Summons given to the world in every Generation, Who is on the Lords side? They that obey the Summons are with the Lord. A people full of Contrivances for the Interest of God, are with Him. A people should set themselves to advance the Glory of God; they should own His Truths, and His Wayes; and endeavour to draw all about them into the Acknowledgement of the same. A people should propound the Glory of God as their cheef End and the main Scope of all that they do; and they should think much of no Cost, no Pains, nor (tho, as a Martyr once expressed himself, tho every hair on their heads were a life) should a Thousand Lives be dear unto them, in the promoting of it. Then are they with the Lord; they are so, when God can say of them, as in Isa. 43. 10. Ye are my Witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant.