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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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The Doctrinal Articles of the Church of England, through the Matchless Favour of God, are more universally Hold, & Preached in the Churches of New-England, than in any Nation, and far more than in our own It is more than I know, That there is One Socinia• in all the Cou•••ey; And among all the Pastors of our Churches, I do not know that there is one Arminian The ⟨p. 23⟩pure Doctrines of Grace, which are a Matchless Favour of God unto the Churches that have them, are the peasant, and public Doctrines of the Country. Yea, The Neonomian, and the Antinomian Errors, about that Great Point▪ of, A Sinners Justification before God, which have bred such a Scandalous Contention, among the Non Conformists beyond Sea, have not yet Straggled over the Atlantic, among this people of God. The two Covenants, that of Works, and that of Grace, are not here so confounded, as in many other places. The Everlasting Gospel, is here Preached with Purity, more universally, than in any Nation. God hath not so dealt with any Nation; Praise ye the Lord! We don't pretend here, that we have taught our Neighbours, The whole Duty of man when we have Lest out the Main Duty of all. And give me leave to say, There is CHRIST Preached in thy Churches, O New England; and the Shout of that King is heard in the midst of thee. I hope, there is nothing of Religion among us, but ordinarily you shall hear something of CHRIST in it, before you have done and you have the Truth as it is in Jesus ⟨p. 24⟩Our Preachers don't value their Sermons, upon being as Austin complained, the Writings of Tully were, Without so much as the Name of CHRIST in them: and would not have you be like those whom the writings of the Ancients do brand, sine Christo Christians. A Nation full of Preachers, that will contrive to make Harangues upon Moral Virtues, but banish CHRIST as much as they can out of all their Treatising, must needs be very obnoxious to the R•sen•men•s of Heaven: I will say with Luther, Quicquid Oratur, Docetur, Vivitur extra Christum, est Idolo•atria coram Deo, et peccatum. Yea, to use the Expression of an Excellent person, If I were in a Church full of Kings, I would say so! But God has not so dealt with this our little Nation. How will you now Praise God for this Matchless Favour? How?