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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
PRAISES Bespoke for the GOD of Heaven, In a Thanksgiving SERMON.
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.
It is Written in Isai. XII. 5. Sing unto the Lord, for He hath done Excellent Things; This is Known […] all the Earth.
It is Written in Isai. XII. 5. Sing unto the Lord, for He hath done Excellent Things; This is Known 〈…〉 all the Earth.
Our Blessed Saviour, being to Preach upon a Text, […] out of that very Book from whence we have now taken ours, began His Holy Sermon, with sayings […] ⟨p. 2⟩Day is this Scripture fulfilled in your Ears. It is by an unhappy Encounter of Gods Mercies and your Desires, that upon the Reading of the Text now before us, I may in like manner, close the Book, and say, This day is this Text fulfilled amongst us. Truly tis known abroad, that our God has done excellent things; and for this cause we are with no less Grounded than Solemn THANKSGIVINGS endeavouring to Sing unto the Lord. Behold a Word of the day in its day here provided for you! May our further considering and understanding of the Text, but promote our fuller Conformity thereunto, and more exactly imprint the shapes of this Heavenly Mould, upon us.
OUr Blessed Saviour, being to Preach upon a Text, 〈…〉 out of that very Book from whence we have now taken ours, began His Holy Sermon, with sayings 〈…〉 ⟨p. 2⟩Day is this Scripture fulfilled in your Ears. It is by an unhappy Encounter of Gods Mercies and your Desires, that upon the Reading of the Text now before us, I may in like manner, close the Book, and say, This day is this Text fulfilled amongst us. Truly tis known abroad, that our God has done excellent things; and for this cause we are with no less Grounded than Solemn THNKSGIVINGS endeavouring to Sing unto the Lord. Behold a Word of the day in its day here provided for you! May our further considering and understanding of the Text, but promote our fuller Conformity thereunto, and more exactly imprint the shapes of this Heavenly Mould, upon us.