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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.
Thirdly, A people should be With God, by ⟨p. 16⟩Behaviour [Like] Him. To be Like God is to be with God. They that are with Him, do not walk contrary to Him. God and we should be One. A people should have the same Designs, the same Desires, which the Written Edicts of Heaven declare to be in the blessed God; and not only so, but the same Virtues too. Is God Holy? Thus a people should not bear with them that are evil. Is God Righteous? Thus a people should abhor all Injustice and Oppression. Is God Merciful? Thus a people should be disposed unto all fair acts of Pity and Kindness. Then they will be with the Lord; and, O that this people were so with Him!
Thirdly, A people should be With God, by ⟨p. 16⟩Behaviour [Like] Him. To be Like God is to be with God. They that are with Him, do not walk contrary to Him. God and we should be One. A people should have the same Designs, the same Desires, which the Written Edicts of Heaven declare to be in the blessed God; and not only so, but the same Vertues too. Is God Holy? Thus a people should not bear with them that are evil. Is God Righteous? Thus a people should abhor all Injustice and Oppression. Is God Merciful? Thus a people should be disposed unto all fair acts of Pitty and Kindness. Then they will be with the Lord; and, O that this people were so with Him!
This is the USE to be now made of what has been delivered.
Let us all now, Be with God, that God may Be with us. I suppose, whatever else we differ in, we generally concur in that wish, I. King. 8. 27