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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].

Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans Available online

Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans
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
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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