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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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All that I Essay to do, is to employ the few Minutes, that are now left unto me in a few Glances on some Things, which we ought not to let the Hand of God, that has at length shaken down, a Tree of longer standing, and more baneful Influences, than that in the Visions of the Chaldean Emperor, to pass, without our taking some Useful Notice of them.
All that I Essay to do, is to employ the few Minutes, that are now left unto me in a few Glances on some Things, which we ought not to let the Hand of God, that has at length shaken down, a Tree of longer standing, and more baneful Influences, than that in the Visions of the Chaldean Emperor, to pass, without our taking some Usefull Notice of them.
Instructions of a Relish beyond the Honey of Canaan are to be found in the Carcass of the Lyon, that is now torn to pieces by a Stronger than he!
Instructions of a Relish beyond the Honey of Canaan are to be found in the Carcase of the Lyon, that is now torn to pieces by a Stronger than he!
Behold, O Sinful Nations, Behold, what a Scourge your Sins have brought upon you. If it be enquired, as it was of old, Why one so unworthy of it, was placed upon such a Throne? As it was then, so it must now be answered, The Sins of the World made them worthy of such an one. Your Sins produced him, your Sins prospered him; your Sins kept him alive; and not the Prayers of Popish Idolaters for his Life; your Sins, which drowned the Voice of all the Prayers, which the best of Men sent up to Heaven against him. ⟨p. 39⟩The great God points you to him, with such an Intimation as that — O Ass•tan, the red of my Anger, the stuff of my Indignation; against the People of my Wrath have I given a charge to take the sports, & to take the prey, and to tread them down as the Mire in the Streets! Reform your Sins, O Scourged Nations, left others be raised up to carry on the Work of inflicting the Divine Vengeance upon you. Be more willing to take the casy Take of your great Redeemer upon you, and submit unto the Sceptre of his Righteousness, left he deliver you up unto the Lust of hideous Tyrants; lest that curse come still upon you, Set a wicked man over them; lest Kings, whose Title may truly run, By the Wrath of God, may long Reign over you.