The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements…

Name: The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements…
Author: Cotton Mather

The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements thereof: and more particularly in the redemption remarkably obtained for the English captives, which have been languishing under the tragical, and the terrible and the most barbarous cruelties of barbary. : [Six lines from Psalms]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728printed by T. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1703

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A Monument of Divine & Glorious GOODNESS· WITH An HISTORY of what t… › Proposition 2: The Second PROPOSITION.

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Let us Enquire, Secondly What are the mo•e special Displays, that God hath given of His Goodness?

Let us Enquire, Secondly What are the mo•e special Displayes, that God hath given of His Goodness?

:27p. 9–10

I will Answer; They are Numberless. But more particularly, Let there be fulfilled this Day among us, that word, Psal. 145.7, 9. Lord, They shall abundantly utter ⟨p. 10⟩the the memory of thy great Goodness; The Lord is Good to all.

I will Answer; They are Numberless. But more particularly, Let there be fulfill'd this Day among us, that word, Psal. 145.7, 9. Lord, They shall abundantly utter ⟨p. 10⟩the the memory of thy great Goodness; The Lord is Good to all.

:28p. 10–11

First The works of Creation, proclaim the Goodness of the God, who has Created all things, and for whose pleasure they are & were Created. In the close of the Creation, we find, Gen. 1.31. God saw every thing that He had made, and behold it was very Good. It is most certain then, That He who made all must be very Good. Even an Heathen could say, When God first s•t upon the Creation of the world, He transformed Himself into Goodness. The whole World is a Map of Goodness. As 'tis said of God, He is Good to all; so it may be said, He is Good in all. Every Creature is an Herald o the Transcendent Goodness, that gave Being unto it. The Goodness of God, gave a Being to every Creature; and hath put every Creature into that Order & Station, wherein it Best serves the Good End for which it was Created. By the Goodness of God, every Creature is well provided for, and furnished with all that Good, that may help it in the comfortable service of its Creator. But there is no Creature that hath more cause to Celebrate the Goodness of God, than Man; Man, that has Dominion over so many other Things; Man that is Beautified with such faculties and

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