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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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First, Our Subsistence, •t has been almost by Miracle: Our God has not so […] with any Nation. How strangely was the Settlement of New England at first brought forward, and at last brought about; When God brought a Nation out of the midst of a Nation! There were some Occurrences in that Thing, which would make that Challenge not unreasonable, Deut. 4.32 Ask now of the Days that are past, which were before thee, since the Day that God Created man upon the Earth, and ask from the one side of Heaven unto the other, whether there have been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? And ever since the Settlement, how strangely have we been Relieved, Supported, Supplied in our frequent, and frightful Exigencies? We have often been in very sore Distresses; but being Distressed, This poor people has cried unto the Lord, who hath heard and saved, with most seasonable and unexpected Salvations. Hath God so dealt with every Nation? Truly No! I must say unto you, as in ⟨p. 31⟩Deut 4 7. What Nation is there, that hath God so Nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things, that we call upon him for? There have been formidable Attempts of Satan and his Sons, to Unsettle us: But what an overwhelming Blast from Heaven has, defeated all those Attempts? And very particularly, When the Carel•• Persecution so raged against our Brethren in the English Nation, That a late Writer affirms, More were then Starved, or otherwise Died in noisome Prisons th•• what I care to mention; We felt nothing of it; but were so dealt withal, as not at that very Time our Brethren in our Nation. Besides, and after, a vast number of Ebenezers, Erected by New-England upon all its various Interests, whole Nations of Salvages from one end of the Land unto the other, took up Arms against us. But the Sword of God, in one years time, cut off those Nations: for, O New England, Thou didst not get the Land in possession, by thy own Sword, neither did thine own Arm Save thee At length it was proposed, That a Colony of Irish might be sent • ver, to ch•ck the growth of this Country: An Happy Revolution spoiled that Plot: ⟨p. 32⟩