Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness: wherein several important duties, are urged, and the evil of divers common sins, is evinced; delivered in sundry sermons. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts].

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Mather, Increase, 1639-1723, author.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 322.

Language:

English

Genre:

• Sermons -- Collections.
• Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 unnumbered pages, 220 pages, 4 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston in New-England : Printed by Samuel Green upon assignment of Samuel Sewall., 1682.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

• The godly man is a praying man:
• The true fearers of God will practice family prayer
• The sincere servants of God will make conscience of secret prayer
• Baptised persons are under sacred and awful obligation to the Lord
• The Lord's Supper is an ordinance which believers are under an indispensible obligation to observe
• It is the property of a sincere godly man, not to sit with vain persons
• Sleeping at sermons is a great and a dangerous evil.

Notes:

• Bookseller's advertisement, pages [15], 1st count.
• Errata note, pages [15], 1st count.
• Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 322).

Cited in:

• Evans 322
• Wing (2nd edition) M1237
• Holmes, T.J. Increase Mather, 88-A

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