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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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Our Degeneracies are horrible: they Expose us to the Dreadful Wrath of the L•r•, who when Churches Leave their first Love, does Quickly come forth against ⟨p. 22⟩them, with Horrible Desolations. Nevertheless, As they tell me, That the Peasants in most other Countries are mere Brutes to what they are in England: I suppose, Ours are not worse than Englands. Yea, I have heard unprejudiced strangers own, That there is yet left proportionably more of Piety in this Land, and the Common people are for the most part, better instructed, than in any that they know of under Heaven. And I hope they will have cause to say, that they see more Honesty too; or Else the Piety is worth nothing at all. He that is but a Publican at the Second Table, is but a Pharisee, as to the First. Modesty forbids me, to say much of This; though I wish I could say More; and, Comparisons are Odious.
Our Degeneracies are horrible: they Expose us to the Dreadful Wrath of the L•r•, who when Churches Leave their first Love, does Quickly come sorth against ⟨p. 22⟩them, with Horrible Desolations. Nevertheless, As they tell me, That the Peasants in most other Countreyes are meer Bruits to what they are in England: I suppose, Ours are not worse than Englands. Yea, I have heard unprejudiced strangers own, That there is yet left proportionably more of Piety in this Land, and the Common people are for the most part, better instructed, than in any that they know of under Heaven. And I hope they will have cause to say, that they see more Honesty too; or Else the Piety is worth nothing at all. He that is but a Publican at the Second Table, is but a Pharisee, as to the First. Modesty forbids me, to say much of This; though I wish I could say More; and, Comparisons are Odious.
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