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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

after an excellent manner keeping all the World in a real Order notwithstanding all the seeming Distractions of it We may see him fulfilling of His promises and His Threa●nings and giving Recompences among the children of men We may see him frustrating and confounding of His Enemies and preserving his Church As a burning Bush not consumed We should pursue a distinct sight of these things and Bless the Lord. When we see that His is the Kingdome we should adde And thine is the Glory too My arrival to this part of our Discours● puts me into a capacity to give you som● Recapitulations of the Excellent things which this Day of THANKSGIVING is more pa●●ticularly designed for My Brethren there are Excellent thing which our God has of late been doing i● the English World He that moves the fo●● Wheels of Providence through all the fo●● parts of the Earth has given the English Nation lately to see those Revolutions which the Histories of all Ages can hardly parallel And now let us this Day sing unto the Lord for He hath done excellent things I. The Late Revolutions in the Land o● our Fore-Fathers Graves afford unto us 〈◊〉 sight of Excellent Things which ought to b● had in Everlasting Remembrance And here The first and great and most comprehensive matter of our Praises is The Happy accession of their Maiesties King William and Queen Mary To the Throne of the Three Kingdoms This was a Thing in all the parts of so Circumstanced a● to make all men 〈◊〉 This is the Lords Doing and it is Marvellous in our Eyes It made a Second EIGHTY EIGHT out-shining that in the former Century For Consider the Season of it It was when the Protestant Religion was Lying at the Stake and forreign Popish Writers did not stick to tell the World in Print That there was a private League made between two of the most Potent Monarchs in Christendome which one of their own Ambassadors also did in a manner own for the Extirpation of Haeresy and that not only the subduing of Holland but also the Enslaving of England were steps to be taken in order thereunto It was when the Indefatigable Drudges of the Papacy who had more than Ten years before declared We have here a Mighty Work upon our Hands no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms and by that perhaps the utter subduing a pestilent Heresy which has domi●●ered●a long time over a great part of this Northern World whereof never such Hopes as now had now got all the Advantageous Posts of the Nation into their Hands and had so model'd all their Business that they counted themselves out of the Reach of chance for ever and were even ready like Haman to cast Lots for a Lucky Day to throw all their Vizards off It was when the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom were overturned and the Frogs of the Romistr Egypt were swarming in a m●in to take possession of the Glorious Holy Mountain between the Seas When things were thought hastening to that pass that every vacancy in the publick Employments would have made several Proselytes unto Popery when a great Creation would suddenly have given the Papists a majority in the House of Lords and New Charters with Bold Returns might quickly have given them a Majority in the House of Commons too a Condition of Affairs that was formidable to all that penetrate into the Tendencies of Popery THEN it was that the then Prince of ORANGE entred upon his Glorious Enterprize of Rescuing the Church of God from the Bloody Altar which it was now bound upon and the Protestant Princes Combining with him offered up their Vows to God for the prosperity of this Important Undertaking as counting that in the miscarriage of it All was Lost. There had been one or two Attempts made before but a wrong step taken in them onely brought a Ruine upon the unhappy people Engaged therein The Popish Party were then slash'd with their Successes and forgot of sl●ghted the Dying Words of one whom they Burnt t is said for only Relieving Distrested Sufferer Though you are seemingly ●xed and using your Violence against those whom ●ou have got under you yet unless you can secure ●he Lord Iesus Christ and all His Holy Angels ●ou shall never do your Business but Vengeance ●ill be upon you before you are aware Consider also the Manner of it It was ●he Expecta●ion which the Late Earl of Ar●le Expired withal That God would ac●omplish His work Not by Might nor by ●ower but by His own most Holy Spirit And it has been done The Spirit of God incli●ed the Dutch to give their Great PRINCE 〈◊〉 the Assistence that could be given When●e Navy with such Wonderful Turns of 〈◊〉 Wind as argued a particular Care of God ●out it was come into its Harbour the Spi●●● of God strangely inclined persons of all ●egrees to an Agreement with the Princes ●●claration it was a Touch of God upon ●●eir Souls Whence though the Nation ●re Debauched on purpose to make Popery ac●●ptable to them yet many thousands that ●re of no Religion at all could not s●ow 〈◊〉 for that Religion The same Spirit ●t a Terror into the Great Oppressors of 〈◊〉 Nation so that though there was a vast my to oppose the Prince the very sound his Approach put them to Rout equal to one given by the clearest Victory and 〈◊〉 they had endeavoured by Shams to establish● themselves One piece of Paper which ' ti● said was a Sham had no little Hand in th● Defeat of those Daring Criminals nor wa● any blood shed in all these Transactions bu● of a Little and a desperate Party that seem●ed weary of their Lives or they might hav● kept them Hence ensued by the unexem●pled and scarce accountable Desertion of th● Late King such a Dissolution of the Govern●ment as never had been known and th● Throne becoming Vacant the Crown is un●avoidably placed upon those Illustriou● Heads which God grant Long to Reign And then Consider the Prospect of it Fo● what may be now hoped for but a Protest●ant KING Iust and Ruling in the Fear 〈◊〉 God as a morning without Clouds unto th● Protestant World We now see upon th● British Throne A KING whose unpara●lel'd zeal for the Church of the Lord Jes●● at the Lowest Ebb hath made Him the Ph●●nix of this Age A KING in whom Co●●rage and Prudence make a Temper which 〈◊〉 to be no where seen but in the Greatest H●●roes A KING that scornfully rejected 〈◊〉 Soveraignty over his own Countrey wh● he might have have had it by betraying 〈◊〉 A KING that uses to say That be can ●annot have so unworthy a Conception of God 〈◊〉 so base Thoughts of Mankind as to believe ●hat any one person should be designed by the Almighty King to trample and oppress a Society ●laced under him A KING that so abhors ●ll Persecution that when he accepted the Crown of Scotland he Explained a clause ●n the Coronation Oath

the Stony Sun-burnt Arabia whom indeed I don't Remember David ever was among Accordingly a people have Three Things incumbent on them if they would enjoy the Presence of God First A People should be with God by Communion With Him This t is to be With Him There are Certain meanes of Communion between God and us and these we must be continually approaching to Him in We are With God while we are at Prayer before Him hence in our Context here it immediately follows If you seek the Lord He will be found of you While we do seek Him we are with Him The Psalmist was a man much in prayer and therefore he could say as in Psal. 73.23 I am continually with thee A people much in Prayer may say the same We are continually with the Lord. A people that will pray upon all occasions a people that will pray over all Businesses a peo that will retire into the Mount for Prayer and Fasting too at every turn that people is with the Lord. And the whole Worship of God must be diligently graciously faithfully frequented by a people that would be with Him We are with God when we are at His House A people should support esteem and use all the Ordinances of God among them The Church of God hath His very special Presence in it the Name of the Church is that in Ezek. 48.35 Iehovah Shammah the Lord is there We should all be there too and there give those Encouragements which are due to the Institutions of God So shall we be with the Lord. Secondly A people should be with God by Activity For Him To be For God is to be with God It was once the Summons given in Exod. 32.26 Who is on the Lords side And all the Sons of Levi gathered themselves they were with God in doing so T is a Summons given to the world in every Generation Who is on the Lords side They that obey the Summons are with the Lord. A people full of Contrivances for the Interest of God are with Him A people should set themselves to advance the Glory of God they should own His Truths and His Wayes and endeavour to draw all about them into the Acknowledgement of the same A people should propound the Glory of God as their cheef End and the main Scope of all that they do and they should think much of no Cost no Pains nor tho as a Martyr once expressed himself tho' every hair on their heads were a life should a Thousand Lives be dear unto them in the promoting of it Then are they with the Lord they are so when God can say of them as in Isa. 43.10 Ye are my Witnesses saith the Lord and my servant Thirdly A people should be With God by Behaviour Like Him To be Like God is to be with God They that are with Him do not walk contrary to Him God and we should be One. A people should have the same Designs the same Desires which the Written Edicts of Heaven declare to be in the blessed God and not only so but the same Vertues too Is God H●ly Thus a people should not bear with them that are evil Is God Righteous Thus a people should abhor all Injustice and Oppression Is God Merciful Thus a people should be disposed unto all fair acts of Pitty and Kindness Then they will be with the Lord and O that this people were so with Him This is the USE to be now made of what has been delivered Let us all now Be with God that God may Be with us I suppose whatever else we differ in we generally concur in that wish 1. King 8.27 The Lord our God be with us as He was with our Fathers let Him not leave us nor forsake us O that we might all as much concur in an endeavourous Resolution to be with God as our Fathers were with Him not to leave Him nor forsake him There is as much of New-England in this great Congregation as can well be reach'd by the voice of one Address t is indeed the best part of New-England that is at least Represented in this Assembly As the great Council at Ierusalem satt near the Temple thus the whole Convention of the Massachusets is here come into the House of God this day Wherefore I take the boldness to say Hear ye me Asa and all Judah and Benjamin The Ch●ef Sinner and least Preacher among all your Sons now takes a Liberty to mind you That God will be with you while you are with Him Now that we may be all of us inspired with a Zeal for this great thing this Day Let us Consider First How Desirable How Necessary a Thing it is that we should have God with us Truly This is the Vnum 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 Vndone if we have it not Methinks I hear the Almighty GOD with a