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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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Astonished a• the Matchless Favour of God, which has made us Protestants ▪ Let us put on all Bowels of Charity, for our Brethren, that are Confessors, and Refugees, for the cause of God. Let us annex the Cries of our Prayers, unto the Cries of the Souls under the Altar, for a speedy and rapid Thunder storm, upon those, who have the Cry of all the Righteous Blood that has been Shed from to the Blood of Abel, to the Blood of Bro•ss•n, whom they lately broke upon the Wheel, going up to God against them: Ut convert•n•ar, […] percan•, aut confundantur •t noce […]. Yea, Bu• more than all […]; Let us […] the Efficacy of our Holy Religion ▪ upon our own Hearts, and L•ves, Let us Live up to the Maxims of our Holy Religion, and ⟨p. 21⟩Live under the awful and joyful Force thereof. Otherwise a provoked God, may put us upon Severe Trials, to preserve it: but if we have not had the Holy Relish of it, we shall, when we are Tried, soon give it away.
Astonish'd a• the Matchless Favour of God, which has made us Protestants ▪ Let us put on all Bowels of Charity, for our Brethren, that are Confessors, and Refugees, for the cause of God. Let us annex the Cries of our Prayers, unto the Cries of the Souls under the Altar, for a speedy and rapi• Thunder storm, upon those, who have the Cry of all the Righteous Bl•od that has been Shed from to the Blood of Abel, to the Blood of Bro•ss•n, whom they lately broke upon the Wheel, going up to God against them: Ut convert•nar, percan, aut confundantur t noce . Yea, Bu more than all ; Let us the Efficacy of our Holy Religion upon our own Hearts, and Lves, Let us Live up to the Maxims of our Holy Religion, and