Cotton Mather Quotes

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• Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can…
• Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
• Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
• That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
• Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
• If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea,…
• A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
• Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
• 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…
• Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first…
• Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
• Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
• What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with…
• History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
• The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
• Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your…
• There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.

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