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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. › APPLICATION.
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This was a Thing in all the parts of it so Circumstanced, a• to make all men say, ⟨p. 33⟩This is the Lords Doing, and it is Marvellous in our Eyes! It made a Second EIGHTY EIGHT out-shining that in the former Century. For,
Consider, the Season of it. It was when the Protestant Religion was Lying at the Stake; and foreign Popish Writers did not stick to tell the World in Print, That there was a Private League made between two of the most Potent. Monarchs in Christendom, (which one of their own Ambassadors also, did in a manner own) for the Extirpation of Heresy; and that not only the subduing of Holland, but also the Enslaving of England were steps to be taken in order there unto. It was when the Indefatigable Drudges of the Papacy, who had more than Ten years before declared, We have here a Mig•• •y Work upon our Hands, no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms, and by that perhaps the utter subduing a Pesi•lent Heresy, which has domineered a long time over a great part of this Northern World; whereof never such Hopes as now; had now got all the Advantageous Posts of the Nation into their Hands, and had so modelled all their Business that they counted themselves cut of the Reach of chance for ever; and were even teady! like Human to cast Lots for a Lucky Day to throw all their Visors off. It was when the Fundamental ⟨p. 34⟩Laws of the Kingdom were overturned, and the Frogs of the Romish Egypt were swarming in a main, to take possession of the Glorious Holy Mountain between the Seas. When things were thought hastening to that pass, that every vacancy in the public Employments would have made several Proselytes unto Popery; when a great Creation would suddenly have given the Papists a majority in the House of Lords, and New Charters with Bold Returns might quickly have given them a Majority in the House of Commons too; a Condition of Affairs that was formidable to all that penetrate into the Tendencies of Popery.