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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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Fourthly. The Angels of our Glorious LORD, even His Mighty Angels, are considerable, tho' invisible Instruments, in the Mighty Shakes which He gives unto the Nations. The Shakes that are given to the World, are so many Turns, given to the Wheels, that carry on what is a doing in the World. We are hastening to a Kingdom that cannot be moved; But as yet we are in a World, in all Parts whereof, [all the Four Parts!] The Wheels are moving and shaking perpetually. And we find; Ezek. X. 9. The Wheels are by the Cherubims. One says well, The Angels are capacious Wheels, that move in the great Clock of the World. The Wheels ⟨p. 18⟩of Providence, that Shake the World, and Change it Marvellously are very much managed by the Ministry of the Angels, whom God hath made Ministering Spirits, to wait about the Throne of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. When a Great King, the Ravager on the Liberties of the World, was Dethroned, it gave a Great Shake unto the World. But how was it brought about? We read; Dan. IV. 23. A Watcher, and an Holy One, comes down from Heaven, and says, Hew the Tree down, and destroy it. Was it not the Angel Gabriel, that helped Alexander in Shaking the World, until it was turned upside down! I am sure, he said, He would, no less than Two Hundred Years before it was done. The Descent of Angels, uses to make all Tremble where they come. The Trembling of the World is very much owing to this; The Angels Descend; and they Shake Nations, and Shake Kingdoms, and Shake Empires, and set all a-shaking before the Lord.
Fourthly. The Angels of our Glorious LORD, even His Mighty Angels, are considerable, tho' invisible Instruments, in the Mighty Shakes which He gives unto the Nations. The Shakes that are given to the World, are so many Turns, given to the Wheels, that carry on what is a doing in the World. We are hastening to a Kingdom that cannot be moved; But as yet we are in a World, in all Parts whereof, [all the Four Parts!] The Wheels are moving and shaking perpetually. And we find; Ezek. X. 9. The Wheels are by the Cherubims. One says well, The Angels are capacious Wheels, that move in the great Clock of the World. The Wheels ⟨p. 18⟩