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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.
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Among other Employments of this Angelical, and Evangelical Pen, one was the pre•a•ing of Sacred Songs, for the use of the […], in the circumstances which there […] been predictions of; and so, besides the […] which common conjecture, have af••• unto this Prophet the composing of; […] forty sixth particularly, which in imitation, ⟨p. 3⟩of the great Luther, we may at this day make the Anodyne of our cares: we have two inspired Songs in this Chapter laid before us• in the first of the Songs, the Confessors of God endeavour themselves to celebrate the Praises of that Eternal one; in the next they endeavour to excite and engage others unto a consort with them in this glorious Exercise. And here we have the Text which we are now to descant upon. [In that Day ye shall say] But What day is That day? we must be beholden unto the foregoing Chapter, for an Answer thereunto. We there find, that there will a Day come, when the Lord will set His Hand again the second time, to recover the remnant of his People: which will be when the Tribes of lost Israel are converted unto the Faith of the Lord Jesus; when according to the Language of the New-Testament, All Israel shall be saved. There will a Day come, when the Root of Jesse shall stand for an Ensign for the People: which will be at the second coming of our Lord; when according to the phrase taken by our Saviour from this very place, the sign of the Son of man shall appear. There will a Day come, when the Lord shall with the Breath of His Lips, slay the wicked; which will be when Antichrist shall perish by the fiery approach of the Lord Jesus, to take vengeance on His wickedest ⟨p. 4⟩Enemy: when according to the phrase taken by the Apostle also from this very place The Lord shall consume that wicked one with the breath of his mouth, and shall destroy, him with the brightness of his coming.
Among other Employments of this An•elical, and Evangelical Pen, one was the pre•a•ing of Sacred Songs, for the use of the , in the circumstances which there been predictions of; and so, besides the which common conjecture, have af unto this Prophet the composing of; forty sixth particularly, which in imitation,