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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.
MANTISSA.
Thus have the Words of God been Calling upon us, to beware of Loosing His gracious Presence. Now the Presence of God, will either go or stay with His Gospel; and the Principal Danger of New-England lies in its giving an ill Entertainment unto that glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus. Let us then see whether the Works of God, have not also been calling upon us to take heed of that Epidemical Evil; and let what has befallen some of our Neighbours, in our days be produced as a Warning unto us to avoid any Contempt of that Gospel, which others have smarted for the Slighting of.
THus have the Words of God been Calling upon us, to beware of Loosing His gracious Presence. Now the Presence of God, will either go or stay with His Gospel; and the Principal Danger of New-England lies in its giving an ill Entertainment unto that glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus. Let us then see wether the Works of God, have not also been calling upon us to take heed of that Epidemical Evil; and let what has befallen some of our Neighbours, in our dayes be produced as a Warning unto us to avoid any Contempt of that Gospel, which others have smarted for the Slighting of.
I would fill the Remaining pages of this sheet with a Discourse fetched from a Reserved Collection of MEMORABLE PROVIDENCES, not improper to be produced on this Occasion.
I would fill the Remaining pages of this sheet with a Discourse fetch't from a Reserved Collection of MEMORABLE PROVIDENCES, not improper to be produced on this Occasion.