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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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One Time above the rest, cannot but be Remembered by many that remain to this Day. Some who did then Jeopard their Lives in the High Places of the Field, are now in this very Auditory. There was a Time Three and Forty Years ago, when the fierce Indian Salvages, having Spread the Flame of a Dubious War, from One End of the Country to the Other, Every One thought, the Summer then coming on, would be filled with Desolations, that would very near have broke Up the Colonies. But Behold, when Things were come to that Extremity, GOD Stepped in, and made bare His Almighty Arm for our Deliverance. The Enemy distracted like Beasts that are Stung with Hornets, fell an easy Prey, to the People Inhabiting the Wilderness. Yea, Sword and Sickness in a few Months consumed whole Nations of them!
One Time above the rest, cannot but be Remembred by many that remain to this Day. Some who did then Jeopard their Lives in the High Places of the Field, are now in this very Auditory. There was a Time Three and Forty Years ago, when the fierce Indian Salvages, having Spred the Flame of a Dubious War, from One End of the Country to the Other, Every One thought, the Summer then coming on, would be fill'd with Desolations, that would very near have broke Up the Colonics. But Behold, when Things were come to that Extremity, GOD Step'd in, and made bare His Almighty Arm for our Deliverance. The Enemy distracted like Beasts that are Stung with Hornets, fell an easy Prey, to the People Inhabiting the Wilderness. Yea, Sword and Sickness in a few Months consumed whole Nations of them!
This has indeed been the way of GOD our SAVIOUR all along Appearing for us.
What a Seasonable Provision did our GOD make for us, by a Friend on the Spot, appearing at the Court for us, at the Revolution, that we might be delivered from a Total and Final Deprivation of all the Privileges, which distinguished us, from the rest of the Plantations!