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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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But what is now to be looked for! Upon the Demise of the old Babylonian Monarch, the next Thing was, The whole Earth is at Rest, & is quiet; they break forth into Singing. But it must not yet come to that, God will yet shake all Nations before it comes to that! However a Mighty Turn to the Disadvantage of the Antichristian Interest is now to be looked for.
The Greatest Persecutor, that ever the Church of God had in the World, is now called away by the Almighty JESUS, whom he has Persecuted. All the Ten Primitive Persecutions have been outdone by that, which the French Molech has carried on; out done in the vast Numbers; and in the horrible Successes; and in the barbarous Cruelties, of the Executions. It may be hoped, that the Miserable People, who are to this Day languishing under these unparalleled Persecutions, may see some Relaxations of them. He that Opened not the House of his Prisoners, is dragged into his Prison. We that have sent up thousands of ardent Prayers to Heaven for it, cannot but be ⟨p. 46⟩filled with the Praises of our God, when we shall hear proclaimed Liberty to the Captives, & the Opening of the Prison to them that are bound. Yea, the Persecuted Religion of our Saviour shall ere long revive, and expand, and flourish; and they that have ragear against it shall find, that they have Imagined a vain thing. —
The Greatest Persecuter, that ever the Church of God had in the World, is now called away by the Almighty JESUS, whom he has Persecuted. All the Teu Primitive Persecutious have been outdone by that, which the French Molech has carried on; out done in the vast Numbers; and in the horrible Successes; and in the barbarous Cruelties, of the Executions. It may be hoped, that the Miserable People, who are to this Day languishing under these unparallell'd Persecutions, may see some Relaxations of them. He that Opened not the House of his Prisoners, is dragg'd into his Prison. We that have sent up thousands of ardent Prayers to Heaven for it, cannot but be ⟨p. 46⟩filled with the Praises of our God, when we shall hear proclaim'd Liberty to the Captives, & the Opening of the Prison to them that are bound. Yea, the Persecuted Religion of our Saviour shall e'er long revive, and expand, and flourish; and they that have ragear against it shall find, that they have Imagined a vain thing. —