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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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The Joy of the Deliverance! When was a Deliverance wrought for the Church under the Babylonian Captivity? It was, when the People found themselves in the very Grave. Their Har•s were hung on the Willows; They were in as desperate Circumstances as the Dry Bones of the Dead; their Cry was, Ezek. XXXVII. 11. Our Hope is gone. After This, what a Design was there formed, for the Utter Extinction of all the People which our GOD then had in the World; When Haman had obtained a Bloody Decree to cut ⟨p. 10⟩oft every Mothers Child of 'em; all in one day; and the Lucky Day fixed for the Execution! Was Isaac ever in such a Mount before? But,—Between the Cup and the Lap! O the Wonder-working Providence of our Glorious GOD! And what became of Haman, and his Ten Sons? Antichrist and his Ten Sons, have cause to think of That! Unto what a Low Ebb was Christianity reduced, when such incredible Numbers of Christians had been Martyred by Diocletian and imagining that he had burnt all the bibles as well as kill d all the Christians in the World, he set up his Triumphal Pillars, with that Inscription upon them, Christiana Superstition deleta,—There's an End of Christianity, thought he. No, Sir, You're mistaken! The Next News is, A Christian Emperor on the Throne; and a greater Number of Christians appearing, than had ever been in the World before! In what a forlorn Condition was the Church, on the very Point of giving up the Ghost, when the hidden Remains of the Taborites, dispatched Four Men to travel into all Parts, upon Discovery, and they returned with sorrowful Tidings, that the Church was Lost in hideous Idolatries; only they were told, that there was a few Remains of the Piemontese, which were Scattered & Concealed; no body knew where they were. But this Darkest Time of the ⟨p. 11⟩Night, was just before Break of Day! Presently, a certain Monk, who had until then made none of the greatest Figure, fell out with a Knave about the price of his Indulgences; and this brought on the Reformation, wherein Half Europe embraced the Religion, which had been just on the very Point of being banished out of the World.
The Joy of the Deliverance! When was a Deliverance wrought for the Church under the Babylonian Captivity? It was, when the People found themselves in the very Grave. Their Hars were hung on the Willows; They were in as disperate Circumstances as the Dry Bones of the Dead; their Cry was,