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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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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.
Let us Consider Thirdly; If we are not With God, we shall be guilty of an Apostasie, and that under very shameful, very direful Aggravations too.
We shall be Apostates, and O let us not be so, lest our God say, My soul can have no pleasure in them. But if we are so, we shall be of all Apost•••s the most inexcusable Let us Consider, what Fathers we have had; they were with God: I may say of 'em as in hos. 9. 8. They were with my God: & they are gone to be so forever. ⟨p. 23⟩What an unaccountable thing will it be for us, to have that Character, which we have been so much cautioned against, There arose another generation which knew not the Lord? What? Shall the Grandchildren of Moses turn Idolaters? and shall the Children of Samuel become the Children of Belial? Shall we forget the Hope of our Fathers, or forsake our Fathers Friend? The very Graves of those blessed men, every Post, every Stone upon their Graves, is a Witness against us, if we do. With dismal Accents, Methinks, their very Ghosts, will groan unto us, Alas, Is our posterity come to this! Nay, Abraham would be Ignorant of us, and Israel would not acknowledge us, if we should be so degenerate as to lose the Presence of the Lord.