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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
The Sincere Servants of God will make Conscience of Secret Prayer.
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.
The Sincere Servants of God will make Conscience of Secret Prayer.
2 TIM. 1. 3. Without erasing I have remembrance of thee in my Prayers day and night.
The Apostle Paul in this verse doth intimate two things.
THe Apostle Paul in this verse doth intimate two things.
1 His own sincerity in serving God. He freely confesseth himself to be the Lords Servant God whom I serve. And there are two expressions, both which may denote his sincerity therein. One, is that of his serving God from his foreFathers. He served the same God, and after the same manner that his fore-fathers had done. As for his immediate fore-fathers they were Jews and Pharisees; and time was when he had served God as they had taught him: but those words may have respect to more remote Fathers, ⟨p. 76⟩