“The Jews have a saying worth remembering: "Whoever doesn't teach his son some trade or business, teaches him to be a thief." As soon as ever I can, I will make my children apprehensive of the main end for which… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them)… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land. — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you. — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps. — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World! — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
“The Jews have a saying worth remembering: "Whoever doesn't teach his son some trade or business, teaches him to be a thief." As soon… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil. — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
