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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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Every body now knows, That there was a Design with a Strong Hand carried on, to put by that Succession to the Crown, which all the Good Men in the Nations wished well unto. One cannot look back on the Story, without being ever now and then in pain for the Next Event! Without being Surprised & Amazed at the Strange Things which fell out One after another, to disappoint the Design which the Men that betrayed the Nations to France, had brought so near, so very near!—to an Execution!
Every body now knows, That there was a Design with a Strong Hand carried on, to put by that Succession to the Crown, which all the Good Men in the Nations wish'd well unto. One cannot look back on the Story, without being ever now and then in pain for the Next Event! Without being Surprized & Amazed at the Strange Things which fell out One after another, to disappoint the Design which the Men that betray'd the Nations to France, had brought so near, so very near!—to an Execution!
Our Lawful & Rightful King GEORGE, being Peaceably and Wondrously Settled on the Throne of Great BRITAIN, to the Joy of all the Good Men in the World, it was not long before the Popish Pretender made an Invasion upon the British Nations, and an Infatuated Party of Self-destroyers made Violent Efforts to bring him in. A Seasonable Death gave a Mortal Wound unto the Undertaking; very much Dispirited the Undertakers, Disconcerted all their ⟨p. 28⟩Measures! The Leviathan at Versailles, being Smitten of GOD, Putrefied into a most loth some Carcass, and left off to Make the World a Wilderness, and to destroy the Cities thereof. The Tree that sheltered and cherished the Birds of Prey was most Seasonably hewn down by the Order of GOD. And the GOD of Beltel, in One day, gave a Double Defeat unto the Insurrections of the workers of Iniquity. In One Day did the Lord of Hosts powerfully defeat them, and both Dunblain and Preston saw the Treading down of all their Strength. But He Stepped in, how Opportunely, how much at the very Nick of Time, which Dispensations to be for ever wondered at!