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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.
Sleeping at Sermons is a Great and a Dangerous Evil.
ACTS 20. 9. And there sat in a Window a certain Young Man named Enrichus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long Preaching, be sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third Loft, and was taken up deed.
IN this Context, the Evangelist, giveth an account of a solemn Church meeting, which was attended by those Christians, who in the Apostles days lived at Troas. Concerning which overs things are noted.
IN this Context, the Evangelist, giveth an account of a solemn Church meeting, which was attended by those Christians, who in the Apostles dayes lived at Troas. Concerning which o•vers things are noted.
1. The day of the week, when those Christians did assemble themselves together, I was ⟨p. 191⟩