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Some important truths concerning conversion, and the improving seasons of grace; as also about…
Some important truths concerning conversion, and the improving seasons of grace; as also about prayer in families, and in secret: delivered in several sermons; / by Increase Mather.
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for John Griffin, 1684
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 true Fearers of God will practice Family Prayer.
Acts 10. 2. One that feared God with all his House—And prayed alway.
IN this Chapter, we have an account of the great acceptance which Cornelius his Prayers found with God, together with the gracious effects following thereupon. ⟨p. 104⟩In the two first verses Cornelius is described. 1. From the City where he dwelt, viz. […]. 2. From his Calling he was a Soldier; and no common Soldier, but a […]. 3. From the Nation which he had belong unto; he was an Italian a Commander belonging to the Italian […]. And indeed Cornelius is a Roman Name. 4. He is described from his Religion, in this verse, he was a devout man, h. e. He was though a Roman, and so a Gentile by nature, yet no mere Heathen in respect of his Religion, but a Proselyte. Elsewhere Proselytes are […]! Devout Pers•••, Act. 17. 4. We read of Devout Greeks, that is […] were Proselytes to the Jewish Religion. Hence also, Cornelius is described to be one that feared God, h. e that did worship the only true God. Thus […] 26. Children of the […] of Abraham, and […] amongst you feareth God; meaning such as though they were not (as the Jews are) descended from Abraham, nevertheless worshipped the God of Abraham as the Jews did. These Fearers of God are in verse 4. called Religious Proselytes