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Mirabilia Dei. An essay on the very seasonable & remarkable interpositions of the divine…
Mirabilia Dei. An essay on the very seasonable & remarkable interpositions of the divine providence, to rescue & relieve distressed people, brought unto the very point of perishing; especially relating to that twice-memorable fifth of November. Offered in the audience of His Excellency the governor and the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-province, New-England, on the fifth of November. 1719. / By Cotton Mather D.D. & F.R.S.Mirabilia Dei. An essay on the very seasonable & remarkable interpositions of the divine providence, to rescue & relieve distressed people, brought unto the very point of perishing; especially relating to that twice-memorable fifth of November. Offered in the audience of His Excellency the governour and the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-province, New-England, on the fifth of November. 1719. / By Cotton Mather D.D. & F.R.S.
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1719
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First. The People of GOD in Associated Bodies; These have all along seen the Seasonable Interpositions of His Providence, when Distresses have grown Extreme upon them. Let us Consider the Days of old, and the Years of Ancient Generations: The condition of, The Bush all on a Light Fire, but yet net consumed. ⟨p. 8⟩When was it, that our Compassionate GOD Looked on the Affliction of His People in Egypt? Things were come to an Extremity; and it is said unto this day, Cum duplic•ntur Lateres, venit Moses. The Tasks are Doubled, the Pains are Doubled: Then comes the Deliverer! Anon, the People are brought unto a Pi-habireth; A Mouth of Perils; Where they cannot escape, Except they Eat up a vast Army behind them, or Drink up the Reedy Sea before them: Well, Fear not; Stand still; See the Salvation of the Lord! How Seasonably and Remarkably the Blessed GOD appeared on that Memorable Day! and Opened a Way in the Sea, and Made a Peth in the Mighty Waters!— In the Difficulties of the Wilderness, When the People were come to the Last Pinch; were on the very Point of Starving: how strangely does the Mighty GOD of Jacob, cause the Angels to drop down Bread from Heaven upon them, and the very Rock to yield Rivers of Waters unto them? And be of a Good Heart, O NEW-ENGLISH Israel; Neither will thy GOD suffer thee to be Starved in thy Wilderness! In the Book of Judges, how often does our GOD Raise up a Deliverer for His People, when Israel is sorely Distressed, and has no Prospect of any Deliverance? What was the Distress of Asia, and his People, when a Million of Rapacious ⟨p. 9⟩Arabians Invade him? What was the Distress of Jehoshaphat, and his People, when united Moabites and Ammonites, and Edomites, Invade him? There was another time, When the Lord saw the Affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was not any shut up, nor any Left, nor any Help for Israel; But, Then! GOD found, I will rather say, GOD made an Hand, by which He saved them. Oh! the Distress of the People, in the Days of Hezekiah, when the Assyrian Invasion was carrying all before it! The Capital City invested, and all on the very Point of Perishing by a Blast of the Terrible Ones! But Now, GOD sends down His Angel from Heaven; Judgment was heard from Heaven; GOD showed Himself Glorious and Excellent on the Mountains of Prey: A Thunder-storm is raised, in which the Stout-hearted are spoiled. Oh!