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A50176	The wonderful works of God commemorated praises bespoke for the God of heaven in a thanksgiving sermon delivered on Decemb. 19, 1689 : containing reflections upon the excellent things done by the great God ... : to which is added A sermon preached unto a convention of the Massachuset-colony in New-England ... / by Cotton Mather.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. A sermon preached to the honourable convention of the governour, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-colony in New-England on May 23, 1689.	1690 (1690)	Wing M1171; ESTC W24924	55,477	128

pass through their mouths than that they should mock at the Word of God they had better swallow a Serpent with all its Poison If the Wicked said one of them had the same power over God that they have over you they would do the same to Him that they do to you but God will pronounce the Sentence of Malediction on them and will say Go into Eternal Fire Brethren said another of them Pray hard and then though we should meet an Army of Enemies at the Door God will place a million of Angels for your Guard Brethren said another of them We have alwayes apprehended more the Threats of Men than those of God else what happened to us would not have happened One of them said Your Riches have ruined you and your Prayers must Relieve you One of them said I am afraid the first Persecution will make you return to Mass again but O suffer your selves rather to be first cut in p●e●es Alas Iesus Christ has poured out all his Blood for us and we can't endure the prick of a pin for Him To the Apostates they generally so conclude their Warnings You have sinned against the Father you have sinned against the Son take heed of sinning against the Holy Ghost for God will then pardon you no more And when the Children are told They shall be Hang'd they are not at all afraid but answer That is but a little harm for a greater good But the other part of their Ministry is The Prediction of Things quickly to come to pass They do indeed foretell many Things of a more private concern they foretell a thousand Things that must happen to themselves and their Friends and the issue confirms the Prophesie One of them being thrown into a Dungeon said The man who sent her thither should within eight Dayes fetch her out and i● strangely was accomplished But the Things of a more publick Concern are chiefly those which they foretel The Gentlemen who give us the History tell us that they judge it not yet convenient to publish a large part of the Authentick and sufficient Collections which they have made of these Prophecies However they have given us a Taste In general The Subjects of this Enthusiasm all agree in foretelling A Speedy Deliverance to the Church of God and they declare The Late Revolutions in England to be the Beginning of that Deliverance Tho' all France was fill'd with a Rumour That the Late K. Iames had Defeated the ●hen Prince of Orange both by Land and Sea these then said The Authors of these Reports commit a great sin for the Prince of Orange has Chas'd and shall Chase the King out of England and that is the Beginning of the Deliverance of the Church They foretold a fresh Assault of Persecution in France and it had a very dreadful fulfilment for after it Ensued a Terrible Storm of Outrage upon the Relicks of Prot●stantism in the Desolate Kingdom in one Article of which there was a Massacre of about four hundred people but they foretold within how many Days the Persecution should b● over and they give hopes of a Protestant King very quickly to be seen in France They proclaim The Divel is going to be shut up in the midst of Hell They say The Accomplishment of the Prophetical Months and Dayes is at Hand but it must be accompanied with very Terrible Wars and Plagues The whole is a Thing very unaccountable and when I consider the Fate of the famous German Prophets which made such a Noise in the World or when I consider that while the Iews were under their Infatuations about their false Messiah Sabatai Saevi some Hundreds of people fell into Extasies as 't is Reported wherein they Prophesied the speedy Deliverance of the Jews by that Impostor and Little Children that could not stammer a word yet repeated and pronounced the Name of this Deceiver with Happy Omens of Him but consider on the other side That not to Regard the Works of the Lord is a Destroying evil I dare not make any Reflections on it I dare not say what Authority or what Original is to be assigned unto these Inspirations but this I know the Comfort and Counsil of the Church is without such things now sufficiently provided for and our Lord Jesus having foretold the State of the Church until He come again hath so concluded His Predictions If any man shall add unto these things God shall add Plagues unto Him Nevertheless This also I shall take for granted That the Great God intends hereby to Awaken us unto a Consideration of what is before us That is a proper use of Miracles and when we are once Awakened there is provided for our Entertainment A more Sure Word of Prophecy which O that our God may help us to Give Heed unto Amen The Way to Prosperity A SERMON Preached to the HONOVRABLE CONVENTION Of the GOVERNOVR Council and Representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England on May 23. 1689. By COTTON MATHER Jer. 23.28 He that hath My Word Let him speak speak My Word faithfully BOSTON Printed by R. Pierce for Ioseph Brunning Obadiah Gill and Iames Woode MDCXC A Prophesy in the Divine Herbert's Church-Militant REligion stands on Tip-toe in our Land Ready to pass to the American Strand When height of Malice and prodigious Lusts Impudent Sinning Witchcrafts and Distrusts The marks of future Bane shall fill our cup Unto the Brim and make our measure up Then shall Religion to America flee They have their Times of Gospel even as we Yet as the Church shall thither westward fly So Sin shall Trace and Dog her instantly The Preface THe Occasion which first produced the following Sermon cannot be expressed in better Terms than those which were used by the Worthy Gentlemen that were the Conservators of our peace in their humble Address to Their Majesties bearing Date May 20 th 1689. Wherein among other things they say Your three several Princely Declarations Encouraging the English Nation to cast off the Yoke of a Tyrannical and Arbitrary Power which at that time they were held under have occurred unto the View and Consideration of the people in this Countrey being themselves under alike if not worse evil and unhappy Circumstances with their Brethren in England First by being unrighteously deprived of their Charter-Government Priviledges without any Hearing or Tryal and under utter impossibilities of having Notice of any Writt served upon them and then followed with the Exercise of an illegal and Arbitrary power over them which had almost ruined a late flourishing Countrey and was become very grievous intolerable besides the growing miseries and daily fears of a total Subversion by enemies at home and invasion by forreign sorce the people thereby excited to imitate so noble and heroic an Exemple being strongly and unanimously spirited to intend their own safeguard and Defence resolved to sieze upon and secure some of the principal persons concerned and most active in the ill management