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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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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.
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 Step'd 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.
The Memory of the Never-to-be-forgotten King WILLIAM, will be for ever precious to all True Protestants, but none more than the New English ones, on a Thousand Accounts; But very particularly for the Influence which he had on that Act of Parliament, by which the Succession of the British Crown has been Settled on the Illustrious House of Hanover, and we see therein, what is most Valuable to a Christian and an English-man secured unto us.