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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.
2. The Apostle in this verse, intimateth his love and affection unto Timothy. Both in that he did give thanks to God for him. So the verse begins, I thank God, namely for Timothy, partly in that Timothy had such a great respect for paul; and it is matter of thankfulness unto God, when he giveth a man a great interest in the hearts of others who fear the Lord, though in gifts his inferiors. He saith in the next verse, I am mindful of thy tears. Probably in those words, he may have respect unto the tears which Timothy shed, at his parting with the Apostle, when he removed from Ephesus: and he did bless God ⟨p. 77⟩for the grace which he saw in Timothy; that there was Faith unfeigned in him, which dwelt first in his Grandmother Lois, and in his Mother Eunice verse 5. We should bless God for the grace we see in others, and especially in young men. Paul was now aged, and hastening out of the world; but he thanked God, when he saw that Timothy a young man did inherit the graces of his godly predecessors. And he must needs rejoice the more to see how Religion and the fear of God was propagated from generation to generation, even to the third generation.
2. The Apostle in this verse, intimateth his love and affection unto Timothy. Both in that he did give thanks to God for him. So the verse begins, I thank God, namely for Timothy, partly in that Timothy had such a great respect for paul; and it is matter of thankfulness unto God, when he giveth a man a great interest in the hearts of others who fear the Lord, though in gifts his inferiors. He saith in the next verse, I am mindful of thy tears. Probably in those words, he may have respect unto the tears which Timothy shed, at his parting with the Apostle, when he removed from Ephesus: and he did bless God ⟨p. 77⟩for the grace which he saw in Timothy; that there was Faith unfeigned in him, which dwelt first in his Grandmother Lois, and in his Mother E•nice verse 5. We should bless God for the grace we see in others, and especially in young men. Paul was now aged, and hastening out of the world; but he thanked God, when he saw that Timothy a young man did inherit the graces of his godly predecessors. And he must needs rejoyce the more to see how Religion and the fear of God was propagated from generation to generation, even to the third generation.