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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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Well, but when our God has granted us the Christian Religion, there is a Second Flight that our Thoughts are to m•ke, into the State of the Case which renders it a Matchless Favour of God; And this is, That it is Truly Christian. Two Hundred years ago, were the Dark Times of the Romish Apostasy. Wherein Satan, by his Vicar and Viceroy at Rome rendered a very Gehinnom, that which was called Christendom. The Unsearchable Judgments of God, gave up all Europe, unto the Chains of Darkness, which Popery, that is but a Disguised, and Revived Paganism laid upon it: Except here an• there some Witn•ss•s in Sackcloth, which by barbarous Crusades, & Cru•l•i•s against them, were made Sheep for the slaughter all the day long. But about one hundred and fourscore ⟨p. 18⟩years ago, God Showered a Spirit of Reformation, upon the Nations of Europe; and Antichrist Lost Half his Empire. God in some things then dealt with our English Nation, as not with any Nation: For the Mystical Jericho being then demolished before the Evangelical Shouts of the Reformation in England, the Curse of our Blessed JESUS, hath ever since in a stupendous manner fallen on the Heads of all that have gone to Rebuild it, and blasted all their Enterprises. And God hath Raised up a Golden Generation of men in the English Nation, who notwithstanding many discouragements and disadvantages, from the Masqueraded Adversaries of the Reformation, as they have kept the Lords Day more strictly, so, for all the other strictness of Manly Christianity, and for the Power of Godliness, and for mighty Elevations of Holiness, have none to equal them▪ (or not many, I am sure) among the Sons of Adam.
Well, but when our God has granted us the Christian Religion, there is a Second Flight that our Thou•hts are to m•ke, into the State of the Case which renders it a Matchless Favour of God; And this is, That it is Truly Christian. Two Hundred years ago, were the Dark Times of the Romish Apstasy. Wherein Satan, by his Vicar and Viceroy at Rome rendred a very Gehinnom, that which was called Christendme. The Unsearchable Judgments of God, gave up all Europe, unto the Chains of Darkness, which Popery, that is but a Disguised, and Revived Paganism laid upon it: Except here an there some Witnsss in Sacklth, which by barbarous Crusades, & Crulis against them, were made Sheep for the slauhter all the day long. But about one hundred and furscore