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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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A man that Feeds and Lives upon the principles of this Religion, is a Noble Creature, and a Candidate of the Angelical Life. The Regions that have not our Gospel, are the Regions that Sit in Darkness, and in the Valley of the Shadow of Death ▪ If we receive this Gospel of the Christian Religion, in the Love of it, it will infallibly bring us to ⟨p. 15⟩Everlasting Blessedness. If this our Gospel be Hid, it is Hid unto them that be lost. The Strangers to this Religion, are Without God in the World, and without Hope of Blessedness in another World. The Lands that have not our Gospel, what are they, but the Habitations of Devils, and all the year long, in a more lamentable plight, than the furthest and frozen Regions of the North, which have all Night for many months together? In the Gospel of our Christian Religion, we have, in one word, A CHRIST, A CHRIST, in whom our Hungry Souls have the Bread of Life, and in whom our Thirsty Souls have the Water of Life: and our Naked Souls, the Splendid Garments of Salvation. Out of Heaven, hath, God, the perfection of Beauty shone upon us. Our CHRIST, He is the Way; without Him, we were Vagabonds, and going astray in the greatness of […] Folly; He is the Truth; without Him, we are a prey to the Father of Lies, and our Deceived Heart can't be Saved from a Lye in our Right Hand: He is the Life; without Him, we are Dead in Trespasses and Sins Blessed JESUS, 'Twere better we should not be at all, than be without ⟨p. 16⟩Thee! But, that bright Sun of Righteousness, hath darted His Healing Beams down upon thee, O New England; when so many millions of m•n, are left unenlightened. Above hal• the Children of men, I suppose, are Idolaters to this Day; and almost a Quarter, if I mistake not, are Mahometans ▪
A man that Feeds and Lives upon the principles of this Religion, is a Noble Creature, and a Candidate of the Angelical Life. The Regions that have not our Gospel, are the Regions that Sit in Darkness, and in the Valley of the Shadow of Death ▪ If we receive this Gospel of the Christian Religion, in the Love of it, it will infallibly bring us to