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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, Let not Sin be With us, and God will be so. Tis the purpose of our God, in Josh. 7. 12. I will not be with you except ye destroy the Accursed Thing, from among you, Let us then Destroy that Accursed thing.
Especially, Let us take heed of the Sins, which at this Time, we have a peculiar Disposition to. It was complained in Hos. 7. 1. When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered. It has bin thus, but God will not be With us, if it still be thus among our selves. Our good God, the Lord our Healer, is now Healing of us: O let us not now be impatient patients, lest that our blessed Physician deal hardly and roughly with us. Impatiens agrotus crudelem facit Medicum. Let us now no more discover Revengefulness against them that have deserved Ill of us. Let the Law, and not the Sword measure out their due unto them. No more discover an Unthankfulness unto them that have deserved Well of us. Requite them not with Censure and Hatred for their unwearied pains to preserve our Peace. No more discover a Contempt of the Ministers, who set themselves faithfully to Declare the ⟨p. 29⟩whole Counsel of God, and to Lift up their voice like a Trumpet in showing us our sins. They are all agreed (I hope) as one man to live and dye studying of your Well-fare; but if they are unjustly ill-treated with you, the great God, whose Messengers they are, will take notice of it, and say, Ye have despised Me!
Especially, Let us take heed of the Sins, which at this Time, we have a peculiar Disposition to. It was complain'd in Hos. 7. 1. When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered. It has bin thus, but God will not be With us, if it still be thus among our selves. Our good God, the Lord our Healer, is now Healing of us: O let us not now be impatient patients, lest that our blessed Physitian deal hardly and roughly with us. Impatiens agrotus crudelem facit Medicum. Let us now no more discover Revengefulness against them that have deserved Ill of us. Let the Law, and not the Sword measure out their due unto them. No more discover an Unthankfulness unto them that have deserved Well of us. Requite them not with Censure and Hatred for their unwearied pains to preserve our Peace. No more discover a Contempt of the Ministers, who set themselves faithfully to Declare the