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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50172	The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the governour, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England on May 23, 1690 by Cotton Mather.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1690 (1690)	Wing M1168; ESTC R28821	21,291	52

Necessarium of New-England Nothing is more Desireable for us than the Presence of our God The Jews have a Fable of their Manna That whatever any man had a mind to tast he presently found in the Manna a Savour a Relish of it It is very true of this Blessed Presence all manner of Blessings are enwrapped in it There is a multitude of Blessings which we are desireous of but they are all contained in this comprehensive thing It will give every honest man all that he wants This will extricate us out of all our Labyrinths This will set all things to rights among us This will wonderfully carry on all the Salvations which have been begun for us by the God of our Salvations If Christ if God be aboard our little Vessel will not sink in the gaping roaring formidable Waves now tossing of it Well did the Apostle say in Rom. 8. 31. If God be for us who can be against us Thus If God be with us we have All for us One GOD will weigh down more than ten Worlds If we have the Presence of that God Who made and moves the Universe by a Word if we have the Presence of that God Who can Command and Create our Deliverances O most Happy We We may then join in such Triumphant Acclamations as that in Psal. 118. 6. The Lord is on my side I will not fear what can man do unto me We may then defie even the Gates of Hell it self for Cur metuat hominem homo in sinu Dei positus and tho' abroad at this day The earth is removing and the Waters roar and are troubled and the mountains are shaking splitting tumbling with the swelling thereof Tho' the great and the terrible God be at this Day coming out of His place to make all Europe a stage of blood and fire and make the Nations everywhere drink deep of the Cup that shall make them giddy with all manner of Confusion Astonishment Yet WE shall be helped right early for God is in the midst of us Add to this Nothing is more Necessary for us than the Presence of God We are undone thrice and four times Undone if we have it not Methinks I hear the Almighty GOD with a voice more awful than that of the loudest Thunder saying over us as in Hos. 9. 12. Wo to them when I depart from them And Wo to us indeed we are in a most woful estate if it come to that How can we endure the mention of it without our most importunate Deprecations O our God leave us not We can have a prospect of nothing but horrible Disorders Agonies and Vexations if we lose the Presence of our Lord We ly open to no less than a fearful Dissipation and more than all our late Oppressors would rejoice to see brought upon us We have lately been complaining of Burdens that were grievous to us but I may warn you of our danger to feel one Burden more which will infinitely exceed them all t is that in Jer. 23. 33. What Burden I will even forsake you saith the Lord. Behold a Burden that will sink us into a bottomless Abiss of Calamities The Presence of GOD This is no less than the very Soul of New-England We are dead and gone if that withdraw When Israel was nimbly enough possessing themselves of the promised Land which God had given them such a CHARTER for they perished in the Attempt for in Deut 1. 42. The Lord said go not up for I am not among you Alas if we don 't in the first place look to this That God be among us we cannot avoid all manner of Dissappointments Desolations Let us Consider Secondly What uncomfortable Symptomes we have had of God's not being with us It seems as if God had fulfilled that sad Word on this poor Land in Deut. 31. 17. I will forsake them and many evils shall befal them so that they will say in that day Are not these evils come upon us because God is not among us There is a vast number of Calamities which have given us lamentable cause to fear That God has forsaken us Why have we suffered such a Blast both on our Trade and on our Corn that the Husband-man complaines I Iooked for much and lo it came to little and the Mariner complains I went out full came home empty T is Because our God is not among us Why have we had Fire after Fire laying our Treasures in Ashes What means the heat of this Anger that Boston the most noble and vital Bowel of the Territory hath with a twice repeted Conflagration suffered such a Loss of that which in the Body politic answers to Blood in the Body natural T is Because our God is not among us Why have we had War after War made upon us by a Foolish Nation Why have the worst of the Heathen had renewed advantages to disturb our Peace And why have so many of our Brethren and Neighbours been made a prey to the most Savage Murderers in the world It is Because our God is not among us Give me leave to say as in Judg. 6. 12. If the Lord be with us why then is all this befallen us But we may find Humiliation enough to convince us of this deplorable thing from what we have endured upon the Loss of our Government She of old said unto our Lord Jesus in I-h. 11. 21. Lord if thou hadst been here my brother had not dyed So If the Lord had been here t is possible we had not Died. If the Lord had been with us would he have made our Wall so feeble that as they said of Ierusalem the going up of a poor Fox upon it should break it down If the Lord had been with us had all the wild Creatures that passed by this Vineyard found such Opportunities to be plucking at it No Our God would have kept us as A vineyard of red Wine and lest any should have hurt us He the Lord would have kept it night and day If the Lord had been with us had you ever thought you had seen cause to Declare as you have lately justly done That a Company of abject strangers had made a meer Booty of us Had we ever felt the sore grievances of an illegal arbitrary Government No The God of Heaven was not with that oppress'd people to whom He said in Isa. 1. 7. Your Countrey is desolate your land Strangers devour it What shall I say It was an Appeal made in Ioel 1. 2. Hear this ye old men hath this been in your dayes Even so I may say to the old men within the hearing of it My Fathers You Remember how we were when God was with us pray was it so in your dayes as it has been in ours Were you visited with Plague after Plague in a long Series of heavy Judgements as We your poor Children are Surely They will tell us God is not with us as He was with them In all