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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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The Last Winter the Men who are Like the troubled Sea, prepared for another Invasion. A Seasonable Death again gave a Mortal Wound unto the Undertaking; and withdrew the Assistances which the Undertakers mightily relied upon. A Monarch who had caused Terror in the Land of the Living, was most Seasonably taken off; And thereby, as the Oppressed Swedes have had their Gothic Liberties Miraculously Restored unto them, so there was a Thing of Great Consequence done towards the Preserving of ours. The Embarkation from Spain indeed went on. But, when there was above an ⟨p. 29⟩hundred and thirty Years ago, a Descent from Spain upon our Fore-fathers, within Navy that called it self, Invincible, GOD fought against it, and by the Stormy Wind fulfilling His Word, confounded that Expedition. And now another Descent from Spain was making upon us, GOD who holds the Wind in His Hand, by His own Irresistible Hand, brought all the costly Expedition to Nothing. But He Stepped in, how Opportunely, how much at the very Nick of Time, with Dispensations to be for ever wondered at!
The Last Winter the Men who are Like the troubled Sea, prepared for another Invasion. A Seasonable Death again gave a Mortal Wound unto the Undertaking; and withdrew the Assistences which the Undertakers mightily relied upon. A Monatch who had caused Terror in the Land of the Living, was most Seasonably taken off; And thereby, as the Oppressed Swedes have had their Gothick Liberties Miraculously Restor'd unto them, so there was a Thing of Great Consequence done towards the Priserving of ours. The Embarcation from Spain indeed went on. But, when there was above an ⟨p. 29⟩hundred and thirty Years ago, a Descent from Spain upon our Fore-fathers, within Navy that called it self, Invincible, GOD fought against it, and by the Stormy Wind fulfilling His Word, confounded that Expedition. And now another Descent from Spain was making upon us, GOD who holds the Wind in His Hand, by His own Irresistible Hand, brought all the costly Expedition to Nothing. But He Step'd in, how Opportunely, how much at the very Nick of Time, with Dispensations to be for ever wondred at!