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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 I pray, How much does the Fifth of November, in the Days of King James the first, outshine the Fifth of November, in the Days of King James the second; on which Twice-memorable Day, there Landed on the English Shore, that Illustrious PRINCE, whom GOD raised and sent for the Deliverance of our Nation, from a Return of ⟨p. 25⟩Popery and Slavery, the Two Grand Plagues of a woeful World, and of Europe from the Chains that France was laying upon it. How Near, how very Near!—was the whole PROTESTANT Interest in the World, unto an Apparent Ruin?—Verily, It lay bound on the Altar, and the Knife was just Ready to Strike, when a Great King was for that purpose United with France, and had a Standing Army at his command, and there only remained the Experiment of some New Creations in the House of Lords, and bold Returns for an House of Commons; to introduce at Once the Horrible Stroke!
And I pray, How much does the Fifth of November, in the Days of King James the first, outshine the Fifth of November, in the Days of King James the second; on which Twice-memorable Day, there Landed on the English Shore, that Illustrious PRINCE, whom GOD rais'd and sent for the Deliverance of our Nation, from a Return of ⟨p. 25⟩Popery and Slavery, the Two Grand Plagues of a woful World, and of Europe from the Chains that France was laying upon it. How Near, how very Near!—was the whole PROTESTANT Interest in the World, unto an Apparent Ruine?—Verily, It lay bound on the Altar, and the Knife was just Ready to Strike, when a Great King was for that purpose United with France, and had a Standing Army at his command, and there only remained the Experiment of some New Creations in the House of Lords, and bold Returns for an House of Commons; to introduce at Once the Horrible Stroke!
But the Rebuilder of the Romish Jericho, found the Curse of our Glorious JESUS, to Blast the Enterprise. That unhappy King, had no sooner boasted in a Proclamation, That there was nothing left now to disturb the future Tranquillity of his Reign, but a sudden REVOLUTION chased him from his Throne; An Eighty Eight brought unto the Nation a Deliverance not inferior to that of the Eighty Eight in the Century that went before it; and a Change came on, whereof he must be very Insensible, who does not make that Acclamation, The Lords doing, and Marvellous in our Eyes!