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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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And now, was what our Nation saw in the Seasonable Deliverance, which causes ⟨p. 24⟩our Ancestors to make this Day like the Days of Purim, the only Instance wherein GOD our SAVIOUR, has after an astonishing manner Stepped in, to rescue us, when we were on the very Precipice of a Perdition to be trembled at? No; There was a Marvellous Deliverance wrought for the Nation, Forty Seven Years before, by a swift change upon the Public Affairs; A CHANGE which if it had been delayed a few Months longer, England might have been a Province to Spain; And something like the Spanish Inquisition had been Established in it; But the PROTESTANT RELIGION,—Whither must thou have made thy Flight, O thou Daughter of GOD!
And now, was what our Nation saw in the Seasonable Deliverance, which causes ⟨p. 24⟩our Ancestors to make this Day like the Days of Purim, the only Instance wherein GOD our SAVIOUR, has after an astonishing manner Step'd in, to rescue us, when we were on the very Precipice of a Perdition to be trembled at? No; There was a Marvellous Deliverance wrought for the Nation, Forty Seven Years before, by a swift change upon the Publick Affairs; A CHANGE which if it had been delay'd a few Months longer, England might have been a Province to Spain; And something like the Spanish Inquisition had been Established in it; But the PROTESTANT RELIGION,—Whither must thou have made thy Flight, O thou Daughter of GOD!
But I will not insist on a Fifth of November, that shone Fifteen Years before this Country was born. I will rather Stir up your Minds to the Remembrance, of what has been done in Our Days, yea, in the very Year that is now passing over us.