Mirabilia Dei. An essay on the very seasonable & remarkable interpositions of the divine…

I am to put you in Mind, of some Things done in Later Times, wherein, Thou hast Awoke, O Arm of the Lord, Awoke as in the 'Ancient Days, as in the Generations of Old! Strange Things done for our Nation, in the Critical Moments wherein we had been all Undone, if They had not been Done just when they were, and if the Mercies of our GOD had not Speedily flown down unto us. Christians, Whoso is wise and will observe these things, even they shall understand the Loving-kindness of the Lord.

You are all sensible, That our Nation does on THIS DAY, make an Anniversary ⟨p. 19⟩Commemoration of a National Deliverance from a PLOT, just Ripe for Execution, which cannot be Realized, and Considered, without a Shuddering Horror at the Thought,—That ever any Thing in Humane Shape could become guilty of so Matchless a Villainy! The wish of the Infamous Emperor, to see the Romans United all so together, that One Blow at the Neck, might behead them all at Once, was now very mere obtained by a crew of horrid Romans. Incredible! Impossible! One of the most famous among our New-English Divines, who was born on that very Signalized Fifth of November, his Father called him Thomas; For, said he, It will hardly be believed, and this Child will have much ado to Believe it, that ever such a Thing should be found among the Children of Men. But what is it, that Popery cannot be guilty of? How Abominable, How Execrable, must Popery become unto all that will not utterly divest themselves of all Humanity? Certainly, When the Days of Intoxication, continuing to this Day upon, as it is judged, about Fourscore Millions of People, abandoned by the Unsearchable Judgments of GOD unto it, are over, it will be so!

You are all sensible, That our Nation does on THIS DAY, make an Anniversary ⟨p. 19⟩Commemoration of a National Deliverance from a PLOT, jast Ripe for Execution, which cannot be Realized, and Considered, without a Shuddering Horror at the Thought,—That ever any Thing in Humane Shape could become guilty of so Matchless a Villany! The wish of the Infamous Emperour, to see the Romans United all so together, that One Blow at the Neck, might behead them all at Once, was now very mear obtained by a crue of horrid Romans. Incredible! Impossible! One of the most famous among our New-English Divines, who was born on that very Signalized Fifth of November, his Father call'd him Thomas; For, said he, It will hardly be believed, and this Child will have much ado to Believe it, that ever such a Thing should be found among the Children of Men. But what is it, that Popery cannot be guilty of? How Abominable, How Execrable, must Popery become unto all that will not utterly divest themselves of all Humanity? Certainly, When the Days of Intoxication, continuing to this Day upon, as it is judged, about Fourscore Millions of People, abandoned by the Unsearcheable Judgments of GOD unto it, are over, it will be so!