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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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It is no Little Blessing of God, that ⟨p. 33⟩we are a part of the English Nation. Our Dependence on, and Relation to, that brave Nation, that man deserves not the Name of an English man, who despises it. There is no English man but what has for his Birthright those Liberties, which are a rich Inheritance: When all the Nations of the Northern Europe, of late years foolishly Lost their Liberties, the brave English, (tho' with struggle enough, against the Unnatural Conspiracies of the Late Reigns) have still preserved Theirs: They are none but the Sons of Edom, that undervalue those Liberties: and who do not see, that God hath not so dealt with any Nation.
It is no Little Blessing of God, that ⟨p. 33⟩we are a part of the English Nation. Our Dependence on, and Relation to, that brave Nation, that man deserves not the Name of an English man, who despises it. There is no English man but what has for his Birthright those Liberties, which are a rich Inheritance: When all the Nations of the Northern Europe, of late years foolishly Lost their Liberties, the brave English, (tho' with st•uggle enough, against the Unnatural Conspiracies of the Late Reigns) have still preserved Theirs: They are none but the Sons of Edom, that undervalue those Liberties: and who do not see, that God hath not so dealt with any Nation.
And if it be a Matchless Favour of our God unto us, that we have our claim to English Liberties, (though our Task masters Twelve years ago, told us we had None!) Let us not be insensible of His Matchless Favour unto us, (for it is Now so!) that we have a claim to the KING of England, as having these Dominions also under His Auspicious Influences.