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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 Improvement, which we are to make of this Experience, must be to Encourage our Prayers and our Hopes for the continuance of it. Sirs, Let us Improve our Experience, unto that Argument; 2 Cor. 1.10. GOD, who raises the Dead, has Delivered us from so great a Death, and He doth Deliver; and […] trust in Him, that He will still deliver us. The Syllogism, I confess, is not of any such form as our common Logic allows of; But Faith Legitimates this way of Arguing, and can Remove Mountains with it!
The Improvement, which we are to make of this Experience, must be to Encourage our Prayers and our Hopes for the continuance of it. Sirs, Let us Improve our Experience, unto that Argument; 2 Cor. 1.10. GOD, who raises the Dead, has Delivered us from so great a Death, and He doth Deliver; and 〈…〉 trust in Him, that He will still deliver us. The Syllogism, I confess, is not of any such form as our common Logick allows of; But Faith Legitimates this way of Arguing, and can Remove Mountains with it!
You will allow me to use the Language of the Day; and say, There may be Things which may threaten to Blow up the Country, and Blow up the Churches, which have the Beauty and the Safety of the Country in them. Let thy Watchmen set upon thy Walls, O NEW-ENGLAND, give thee yet more faithful & more solemn Warnings of them, and may their Visions prevent thy Perishing!
But now, Why may we not Hope, That before the Distresses which the Exportation ⟨p. 33⟩of our Coin through' the Extravagancy of our Living has brought upon us, be brought unto much greater Extremity, the Methods which the Men of Thought have to offer for the Stopping of that Hemorrhage, will be yet more thoroughly Digested, will be hearkened unto, will be complied withal: And all foolish Animosities that may hinder this Felicity, be entirely Extirpated?