Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, Volumen5Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1847 |
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... heart , and poured into it the consola- tions of his great and precious promises . " From this period , Mr. Mather seems to have had his mind fixed upon the holy ministry ; and that he might prepare himself in the best man- ner , for so ...
... heart , and poured into it the consola- tions of his great and precious promises . " From this period , Mr. Mather seems to have had his mind fixed upon the holy ministry ; and that he might prepare himself in the best man- ner , for so ...
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... hearts of his hearers . " Yet so scripturally and powerfully did he preach his plain sermons , that Mr. Hooker used to say , " My brother Mather is a mighty man . " In both Englands , he had much success of his labors in converting many ...
... hearts of his hearers . " Yet so scripturally and powerfully did he preach his plain sermons , that Mr. Hooker used to say , " My brother Mather is a mighty man . " In both Englands , he had much success of his labors in converting many ...
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... heart ? Have I Christ , or no ? O the many tears that were shed in Dorchester meeting - house , at such times , both by those who declared God's work on their souls , and by those that heard them ! " At the period of which we are ...
... heart ? Have I Christ , or no ? O the many tears that were shed in Dorchester meeting - house , at such times , both by those who declared God's work on their souls , and by those that heard them ! " At the period of which we are ...
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... heart of man , the things which God hath prepared for them that love him . " Mr. Mather was united in a second marriage with the widow of his distinguished ministerial brother , the Rev. John Cotton , of Boston . This lady survived him ...
... heart of man , the things which God hath prepared for them that love him . " Mr. Mather was united in a second marriage with the widow of his distinguished ministerial brother , the Rev. John Cotton , of Boston . This lady survived him ...
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... heart was much set , and to further which he did not labor altogether in vain . He wrote also on the prophecies of Script- ure ; and a volume of sermons on the types . He had a controversy with an individual in Dublin , on a subject not ...
... heart was much set , and to further which he did not labor altogether in vain . He wrote also on the prophecies of Script- ure ; and a volume of sermons on the types . He had a controversy with an individual in Dublin , on a subject not ...
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Página 85 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Página 202 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Página 266 - Nevertheless, we cannot but humbly recommend unto the government, the speedy and vigorous prosecution of such as have rendered themselves obnoxious, according to the direction given in the laws of God. and the wholesome statutes of the English nation, for the detection of witchcrafts.
Página 127 - Testimony to the order of the Gospel in the Churches of New England...
Página 38 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 156 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws ; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Página 147 - Woe is me, for I am undone, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips ; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.
Página 87 - commended it unto the serious consideration of all the churches and people in the jurisdiction, enjoining and requiring all persons, in their respective capacities, to a careful and diligent reformation of all those provoking evils mentioned therein, according to the true intent thereof, that so the anger and displeasure of God, many ways manifested, might be averted, and his favor and blessing...
Página 239 - I did then begin to think what I should do to be saved, and did bewail my youthful days, which I had spent in vain. I did think that I would begin to mind the things of God. Being then some time under your father's ministry, much troubled with my burden, but thinking of that Scripture, " Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest...
Página 21 - If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.