"Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity,……" — Cotton Mather
"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 charity by misapplying it."
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Cotton Mather
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17 Quotes by Cotton Mather
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I…
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Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
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Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
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That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the…
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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
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If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments…
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A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
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Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
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I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of…
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Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures.…
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
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