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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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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!
But the Rebuilder of the Romish Jericho, found the Curse of our Glorious JESUS, to Blast the Enterprize. 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 inferiour 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!
That Fifth of November, is the more to be kept in thy Remembrance, O NEW-ENGLAND, ⟨p. 26⟩Because among the Things afterwards brought into the Light, it was found, That the Establishment of Popery in these Colonies, was an Article that had been very particularly provided for.
Thus was our GOD seen in the Mount! And it shall no more be said, The Lord Liveth, who Saved the Parliament-House, and all that was in it, from a Desolation in a Moment, and an Utter Consumption with Terrible Things: But it shall be said, The Lord Liveth, who Stepped in, at the Moment, when all that is dear to us, was on the very Point of going from us, and by an Happy REVOLUTION Enabled us to sing, Our Soul is Escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowlers; The Snare is broken, and we are Escaped.