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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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And then, Consider the Prospect of it. For what may be now hoped for, but a Protestant KING, Just and Ruling in the Fear of God, as a morning without Clouds unto the Protestant World! We now see upon the British Throne, A KING, whose unparalleled zeal for the Church of the Lord Jesus at the Lowest Ebb, hath made Him the Phoenix of this Age; A KING in whom Courage and Prudence make a Temper which is to be no where seen but in the Greatest Heroes; A KING that scornfully rejected a Sovereignty over his own Country, when he might have have had it, by betraying of ⟨p. 37⟩it; A KING, that uses to say, That be can cannot have so unworthy a Conception of God, or so base Thoughts of Mankind, as to believe that any one person should be designed b• the Almighty King, to trample and oppress a Society placed under him; A KING, that so abhors all Persecution, that when he accepted the Crown of Scotland, he Explained a clause in the Coronation Oath, with this Proviso, I will not be obliged to be a Persecutor: A KING, that has twice had a Crown of Light, appearing in the Heavens over his Principality to signalize him unto the World: With him we see A QUEEN, whose Virtues had long since Enthroned her in the Hearts of the whole English Nation: We do not now see a Rom•• Delilah for the Philistines to Plough withal; no••ls our Solomon under the Temptations which the greatest Monarchs have sometimes fell before. What can be hoped for, but that the Chains with which the Tyrannous and Treacherous Grand Seignior of France had Petter'd Europe, will now be broken? and that the most monstrous Tiger in the world, having the Forces of Three Kingdoms let loose upon him, while he is Attacked with such a General Storm on every side as was never seen before, must quickly either perish, or proclaim Liberty for that Religion which he has out done ⟨p. 38⟩all that ever Lived, for the Persecution of? 'Tis an unaccountable Coincidence with this, That some hundreds of People in France are lately fallen into Prodigious Ecstasies, wherein being Dead asleep, they both speak of Things and speak with Tongues, which before they had nothing of; and they agree to tell us, The Late Revolutions in England were to begin the Deliverance of the Church of God. These are some of the Excellent Things done by our God! Thus are all the Affairs of Europe overturned.