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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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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!