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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.
What shall I say? It was an Appeal made in Joel, 1. 2. Hear this, ye old men,; hath this been in your days? Even so, I may say to the old men within the hearing of it; My Fathers, You Remember how we were, when God was with us; pray, was it so in your days, as it has been in ours? Were you visited with Plague after Plague, in a long Series of heavy Judgements, as We your poor Children are? Surely, They will tell us; God as not with us, as He was with them.
What shall I say? It was an Appeal made in Joel, 1. 2. Hear this, ye old men,; hath this been in your dayes? Even so, I may say to the old men within the hearing of it; My Fathers, You Remember how we were, when God was with us; pray, was it so in your dayes, as it has been in ours? Were you visited with Plague after Plague, in a long Series of heavy Judgements, as We your poor Children are? Surely, They will tell us; God as not with us, as He was with them.
In all these matters, our Case may at least have some Correspondence with that in Luc. 23. 28. He made as though He would have gone; but they constrained Him, saying, Abide with us!
In all these matters, our Case may at least have some Correspondence with that in Luc. 23. 28. He made as though He would havegone; but they constrained Him, saying, Abide with us!
Let us Consider Thirdly; If we are not With God, we shall be guilty of an Apostasy, and that under very shameful, very direful Aggravations too.