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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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Moreover, Is it not a Matchless Favour to Sit under the Wings of Churches, wherein the Primitive Discipline is Restored: Even the Discipline, that Cranmer, and Hooper, and other Great Lights of the Church of England, wished for, and wrote for, & would gladly have Died for? A Discipline wherein all Things are Conformed, as well as we can understand, unto the Word of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, & wherein the Elders have their Authority upheld, the Brethren have not their Liberties over laid, and all things Conspire to Represent the Holiness of the Kingdom of Heaven unto the World; it is a Matchless Favour of Heaven, to the Nation that is ⟨p. 26⟩Illuminated with it. In whatsoever we may want of this, may the Great Shepherd of the Sheep •ead us, and make our Works perfect before Him. In whatsoever we have attained of i•, it will be a very sad unhappiness, for any man to be so Left of God, as to be the Instrument of Discomposing it: it were better to Die, than come under that unhappiness. God grant we may hear that, which they tell us, was one of the Songs, at the Feast of Tabernacles, Blessed be our Youth, that have not made our Old men Ashamed.
Moreover, Is it not a Matchless Favour to Sit under the Wings of Churches, wherein the Primitive Discipline is Restored: Even the Discipline, that Cranmer, and Hooper, and other Great Lights of the Church of England, wish'd for, and wrote for, & would gladly have Dy'd for? A Discipline wherein all Things are Conformed, as well as we can understand, unto the Word of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, & wherein the Elders have their Authority upheld, the Brethren have not their Liberties over laid, and all things Conspire to Represent the Holiness of the Kingdom of Heaven unto the World; it is a Matchless Favour of Heaven, to the Nation that is ⟨p. 26⟩Illuminated with it. In whatsoever we may want of this, may the Great Shepherd of the Sheep •ead us, and make our Works perfect before Him. In whatsoever we have attained of i•, it will be a very sad unhappiness, for any man to be so Left of God, as to be the Instrument of Discomposing it: it were better to Dy, than come under that unhappiness. God grant we may hear that, which they tell us, was one of the Songs, at the Feast of Tabernacles, Blessed be our Youth, that have not made our Old men Ashamed.