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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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Thirdly. Let every man do his Part, and his Best in this Matter, That God may be with us.
Behold, a work provided for all sorts of men.
Pardon me, that I first offer it unto You, that are or may be Our Superiors. It was said in Hos. 11. 12. Judah ruleth with God. When Rulers are with God, O happy Government! Unto YOU, much Honoured, ⟨p. 33⟩I would humbly address this Petition. That Your first work may be to think on some considerable Expedient, by which the Presence of God may be secured unto us. A little Consultation may soon produce, what all New-England may bless you for. Yea, tis very much in your Power to do what may have a Tendency to perpetuate the Presence of God unto the succeeding Generations. I cannot for bear uttering the Wish of the great Chytr•us in this Honourable Audience, Utinam potentes rerum Domini majorem Ecclesioe et Scholarum cur am susciperent! May a godly and a learned Ministry be every where encouraged: and no Plantations allowed to live without a good Minister in them. May the College be maintained, and that River the wholesome streams whereof have made glad the City of God, and blest us with a privilege above the other Out-goings of our Nation, be kept Running, with Issues beyond those from the Seminaries of Canada or Mexico; may Schools be countenanced, and all good ways to nourish them and support them in every Town, be put in Execution; you shall then probably leave the Presence of God, as a blessed Legacy with such as may come after you. I know not whether we do, or can at this Day, labour under an iller Symptom, than the too general Want of Education in the Rising Generation; ⟨p. 34⟩