Author: Cotton Mather

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13: 9781332987610

Excerpt from Magnalia Christi Americana, or the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, From Its First Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698: In Seven Books And yet if we look on the Light fide, the Divine fide of this Work, we may yet fee, that the Glory of God which was with our Fathers, is net wholly departed from us their Children there are as yet many Signs of his Gracious Prefince with us, both in the way of his Providences, and in the ufe of his Ordinances, as alfo in and with the I-l'harts and Souls of a confiderable number of his People in nenuengland, that we may yet fay as they did, Thy Name is Upon us, and thou art in the midfl of us, therefore, Lord, Leave us not! As Solomon prayed, f0 may we, The Lord our God he math us, as he with our Fathers 3 Let him not leave nor for/cake us; hat incline our flearts to keep his Commandments. And then, That he would maintain his own, and his Peoples C au ', at all times, an the mat ter may require. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."