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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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Sirs, I cannot more Emphatically tell you, What Praises are due to the God of Heaven, for these His Matchless Favours, than in those words, Gal. 5 13 Brethren, ye have been called unto Liberty, only use not your Liberty for an occasion to the flesh. God forbid. That in the use of our Liberties and Elections, we should be acted by any Spirit, but that of Respect unto the Public Welfare. I hope, we are a people of more understanding, than to think, That the Saving a little Money, is New-England's greatest Interest. God will soon convince us, That this evil principle will be the Root of all Evil. And almost all our ⟨p. 40⟩Losing, has usually been by improper Saving. I will humbly take leave to add, Let us Beware of Narrow, and Little, & Selfish Designs; Beware of unjust Censures, and Slanders, upon Persons of Merit; Beware of all Self-undoing prejudices, in our Elections. And especially Beware of counting those persons our Adversaries, that are of all the most Able, and the most Willing to be our Benefactors. I am not afraid of telling You, That I am very much persuaded, the Factious Dispositions with which our Elections were sometimes managed, were not the Least of those Provocations, against which, Heaven testified by taking away our Charter from us. It is possible, That at this very Time, there may be peculiar cause for some caution; That our Elections may be so managed, as to demonstrate, that we are not a Contemptible, but a Wise, and a Good people, and that we are not Ignorant of our true Interest.
Syrs, I cannot more Emphatically tell you, What Praises are due to the God of Heaven, for these His Matchless Favours, than in those words, Gal. 5 13 Brethren, ye have been called unto Liberty, only use not your Liberty for an occasion to the flesh. God forbid. That in the use of our Liberties and Elections, we should be acted by any Spirit, but that of Respect unto the Publick Welfare. I hope, we are a people of more understanding, than to think, That the Saving a little Money, is New-England's greatest Interest. God will soon convince us, That this evil principle will be the Root of all Evil. And almost all our ⟨p. 40⟩Losing, has usually been by improper Saving. I will humbly take leave to add, Let us Beware of Narrow, and Little, & Selfish Designs; Beware of unjust Censures, and Slanders, upon Persons of Merit; Beware of all Self-undoing prejudices, in our Elections. And especially Beware of counting those persons our Adversaries, that are of all the most Able, and the most Willing to be our Benefactors. I am not afraid of telling You, That I am very much perswaded, the Factious Dispositions with which our Elections were sometimes managed, were not the Least of those Provocations, against which, Heaven testified by taking away our Charter from us. It is possible, That at this very Time, there may be peculiar cause for some caution; That our Elections may be so manag'd, as to demonstrate, that we are not a Contemptible, but a Wise, and a Good people, and that we are not Ignorant of our true Interest.