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Shaking dispensations. An essay upon the mighty shakes, which the hand of heaven, hath…
Shaking dispensations. An essay upon the mighty shakes, which the hand of heaven, hath given, and is giving, to the world. : With some useful remarks on the death of the French king, who left off to make the world a wilderness, and to destroy the cities thereof; on the twenty-first of August. 1715. In a sermon on that great occasion, at Boston, New-England. 13 d. VIII m. 1715. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. & F.R.S.
Boston: printed by B. Green. Sold by S. Gerrish, 1715
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Certainly all the Servants of God in the World, will on this Occasion adore the Hand of the Glorious GOD, breaking in pieces the Head of a Leviathan.
Sure I am, If after the Setting up of Popery in the Plantations, had been Engaged unto him, when we had a Popish King upon the ⟨p. 3⟩Throne, (as has been since discovered,) a most Seasonable Revolution had not prevented •is taking Possession of this Country, we had found him a Leviathan. The Jaws of the fiercest Crocodile would have been full of Tender Mercies, in Comparison of his Merciless Cruelties.
Sure I am, If after the Setting up of Popery in the Plantations, had been Engaged unto him, when we had a Popish King upon the ⟨p. 3⟩Throne, (as has been since discovered,) a most Seasonable Revolution had not prevented •is taking Possession of this Country, we had found him a Leviathan. The Jawes of the fiercest Crocodile would have been full of Tender Mercies, in Comparison of his Merciless Cruelties.
An Entertainment for the People Inhabiting the Wilderness, is to be Considered on this Occasion. Our God provides an Entertainment for us. And what can more agreeably, or more deliciously Entertain us, than a View of the Wonderful Shakes, which the Great God is upon giving to the Nations, yea, to all Nations, upon such a Dispensation!