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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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nevertheless those people, I am sure, were stigmatized for none of the wisest, Who Regard not the Works of the Lord, nor the Operation of his Hands; and the Communion between Us and the Angels, either good or bad, which are Invisibly about us, is more frequent, and Upheld and Applied unto more purposes than Mankind is Happy enough to be well Aware. I therefore pass on to say, That New-England also seems to have had its Prodigies. We have had indeed One Omen, which was rather a Prophesy than a Prodigy unto us. I Remember that Leontius, the Aged and Famous Minister of Antio•b, pointing to his own White Head, said unto his people, Brethren, when this Bank of Snow falls, I can tell you, that you'll have a dirty ••me on't; intimating the Troubles and Quarrels that should happen among them, after his Decease. Truly that sort of Snow fell so fast among us, and the precious, praying, Excellent ⟨image ?⟩Old Disciples were so fast interred, that we might well conceive as much of our Quiet, would go away with them, as there went of our Glory. But I yet speak too figuratively, to answer the Expectations of my Reader; Let him then know: That
nevertheless those people, I am sure, were stigmatized for none of the wisest, Who Regard not the Works of the Lord, nor the Operation of his Hands; and the Communion between Us and the Angels, either good or bad, which are Invisibly about us, is more frequent, and Upheld and Applied unto more purposes than Mankind is Happy enough to be well Aware. I therefore pass on to say, That New-England also seems to have had its Prodiges. We have had inded One Omen, which was rather a Prophesy than a Prodigy unto us. I Remember that Leontius, the Aged and Famous Minister of Antio•b, pointing to his own White Head, said unto his people, Brethren, when this Bank of Snow falls, I can tell you, that you'll have a dirty ••me on't; intimating the Troubles and Quarrels that should happen among them, after his Decease. Truly that sort of Snow fell so fast among us, and the precious, praying, Excellent ⟨image ?⟩Old Disciples were so fast interr'd, that we might well conceive as much of our Quiet, would go away with them, as there went of our Glory. But I yet speak too figuratively, to answer the Expectations of my Reader; Let him then know: That