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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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Consider also the Manner of it. It was the Expectation which the Late Earl of Argyle Expired withal, That God would accomplish His work, Not by Might, nor by Power, but by His own most Holy Spirit. And so it has been done! The Spirit of God inclined the Dutch to give their Great PRINCE in the Assistance that could be given. When the Navy, with such Wonderful Turns of the Wind, as argued a particular Care of God about it, was come into its Harbour, the Spirit of God strangely inclined persons of all Degrees to an Agreement with the Princes Declaration: it was a Touch of God upon their Souls! Whence, though the Nation were D•hauched on purpose to make Popery acceptable to them, yet many thousands that were of no Religion at all, could not now fight for that Religion. The same Spirit sent a Terror into the Great Oppressors of the Nation, so that though there was a vast Army to oppose the Prince, the very sound, of his Approach, put them to Rout, equal ⟨p. 36⟩to one given by the clearest Victory; and as they had endeavoured by Shams to establish themselves, One piece of Paper, which ('tis said) was a Sham, had no little Hand in the Defeat of those Daring Criminals; nor was any blood shed […] these Transactions, but of a Little and a desperate Party that seemed weary of their Lives, or they might have kept them. Hence ensued, by the unexampled and scarce accountable Desertion of the Late King, such a Dissolution of the Government as never had been known; and the Throne becoming Vacant, the Crown is una••id•bly placed upon those Illustrious Head, which, God grant Long to Reign!
Consider also the Manner of it. It was the Expectation which the Late Earl of Arg•le Expired withal, That God would accomplish His work, Not by Might, nor by Power, but by His own most Holy Spirit. And so it has been done! The Spirit of God inclined the Dutch to give their Great PRINCE in the Assistence that could be given. When the Navy, with such Wonderful Turns of the Wind, as argued a particular Care of God about it, was come into its Harbour, the Spirit of God strangely inclined persons of all Degrees to an Agreement with the Princes Declaration: it was a Touch of God upon their Souls! Whence, though the Nation were D•hauched on purpose to make Popery acceptable to them, yet many thousands that were of no Religion at all, could not now fight for that Religion. The same Spirit sent a Terror into the Great Oppressors of the Nation, so that though there was a vast Army to oppose the Prince, the very sound, of his Approach, put them to Rout, equal