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Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness
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]
printed by Samuel Green upon assignment of Samuel Sewall, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. In that he was careful, not only to pray unto God himself alone, but that his Family should do so too. He did worship God with all his House, h. e. with his whole Family. The house is frequently in the Scripture put for the Family, Gen. 7. 1. & 30.30. Exod. 12 3.
2. In that he did thus alway. He did not only pray with his Family once or so, but always? That is to say, alway in the due and stated seasons for that duty: the meaning is not as though Cornelius did spend his time in nothing else but Prayer and Religious Exercises, but that he was constant in his Attendance unto that duty, in the seasons appointed for that end.
2. In that he did thus alway. He did not only pray with his Family once or so, but alwayes? That is to say, alway in the due and stated seasons for that duty: the meaning is not as though Cornelius did spend his time in nothing else but Prayer and Religious Exercises, but that he was constant in his Attendance unto that duty, in the seasons apponted for that end.
The Doctrine which the Words do therefore afford unto us, is,