Two Mather Biographies: Life and Death and ParentatorLehigh University Press, 1989 - 241 páginas The first modem edition of Increase Mather's seventeenth-century biography of his father, Richard, and Cotton Mather's eighteenth-century biography of his father, Increase. Characteristic of New England Puritan biographies, both convey religious instruction about the conduct of one's life on earth. |
Contenido
3 | |
27 | |
PARENTATOR | 59 |
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION | 213 |
NOTES TO Life and Death | 216 |
NOTES TO Parentator | 221 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 117 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people...
Página 58 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith ; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day ; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Página 146 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Página 58 - All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.
Página 35 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; they rest from their labours, and their works follow them...
Página 63 - Epist. to Thess. Chap. 5. And the whole Second Epistle of Peter; his Notes whereon he reviewed, and Transcribed for the Press, not many years before his decease. Notwithstanding those rare Gifts and Graces wherewith the Lord had adorned him, he was exceeding low and little in his own eyes. Some have thought that his greatest errour was, that he did not magnifie his Office, as he might and sometimes should have done.
Página 44 - Instructing the Living concerning Death, the Resurrection, the Judgement to come, and the like seasonable Truths. Thus did he Preach the Word, being instant in season and out of season, reproving, rebuking, exhorting, with all long-suffering and doctrine.
Página 227 - The half-way covenant was a scheme devised by our forefathers, assembled in synod, 1662, to determine who were the proper subjects of baptism ; and they decided, " that church members, who were admitted in minority, understanding the doctrine of faith, and publicly professing their assent thereto, not scandalous in life, and solemnly owning the covenant before the church, wherein they give up themselves and children to the Lord, and subject themselves to the government of Christ in his church, their...
Página 181 - At nine o'clock, he came down and read a chapter, and made a prayer with his family. He then returned unto the work of the study. Coming down to dinner, he quickly went up again, and begun the afternoon with another prayer.
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