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A pillar of gratitude. Or, A brief recapitulation, of the matchless favours, with which…
A pillar of gratitude. Or, A brief recapitulation, of the matchless favours, with which the God of heaven, hath obliged the hearty praises, of his New-England Israel. A sermon delivered in the audience of His Excellency, the Earl of Bellomont, captain general, and governor in chief, and of the Council & Representatives, of the General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, convened at Boston, in New England. On May 29 1700 the day, for the election of counsellors, in the province. / By Cotton Mather. ; Whereto there is appendixed, an extract of some accounts, concerning the wonderful success of the glorious Gospel, in the East-Indies. ; [One line of Latin quotation]A pillar of gratitude. Or, A brief recapitulation, of the matchless favours, with which the God of heaven, hath obliged the hearty praises, of his New-England Israel. A sermon delivered in the audience of His Excellency, the Earl of Bellomont, captain general, and governour in chief, and of the Council & Representatives, of the General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, convened at Boston, in New England. On May 29 1700 the day, for the election of counsellors, in the province. / By Cotton Mather. ; Whereto there is appendixed, an extract of some accounts, concerning the wonderful success of the glorious Gospel, in the East-Indies. ; [One line of Latin quotation]
Boston: printed by B Green, 1700
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But then, you will also Remember, that we are utterly unworthy of these Matchless Favours, for which we offer up unto God our Hearty Praises. When we Reflect on •he Dealings of our God with us, we fearfully add unto our own unworthiness, if we don't sensibly▪ say with our Father Jacob▪ Lord, we are not worthy of the Least of all these Mercies. Truly, 'tis not because we are better than any other Nation, that our God hath so dealt with ⟨p. 8⟩us, as not with any Nation. We are more vile than every other Nation, if we don't own our selves as vile, as any Nation ▪ When God had so dealt with His people of old, as not with any Nation, He, to refund and confound the vain Thoughts of pride in them, told them, Deut. 7.7, 8. The Lord did not set his Love upon you, because ye were more in Number than any people, (for ye were the fewest of all people) but because the Lord Loved you. Such in Idem per Idem, is very good sense, in he Language of Sovereign Grace; The Lord Loved you, merely because He Loved •ou! Even so; 'Tis the mere Sovereign Grace of the God, who does all things according to the Coun••l of his own Will, that hath so Dealt with the English Nation as n•t with any Nation. O•r Ancestors were •s forlorn, wretched, rueful Pagans, as •ur Indians; and there are now the same […] in our Nation ▪ that there are in the •hore Enslaved Neighbours, that are under •he Houses of Bourbon, or of Austria ▪ Why as the Lord so Dealt with thee, O New-England, as not with any Nation! The very Hottentots of Africa, and Ca••iba's on Florida are a Nation as worthy of the Divine