Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once…

Name: Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once…
Author: Cotton Mather

Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once the honourable consort of John Leveret Esq. governor of the Massachuset-Colony, New-England,) who changed earth for heaven. 2 d. 11 m. 1704. : With an elegy upon her memory. : [Two lines from Augustine]Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once the honourable consort of John Leveret Esq. governour of the Massachuset-Colony, New-England,) who changed earth for heaven. 2 d. 11 m. 1704. : With an elegy upon her memory. : [Two lines from Augustine]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed for Samuel Phillips, 1705

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Female Piety Exemplified. In a Funeral-SERMON, on the DEATH of Mrs.… › Doctrine › Proposition 2: The Second Proposition.

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The Second Proposition.

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The Good Christian does CHOOSE the Good Portion; And none have it, but they tha• Choose it. A Christian is as much distinguished by ⟨p. 13⟩much denominated from, his Choice, as any •ng whatsoever. The Choice that a Good Christi•• makes, is of a Good Portion.

The Good Christian does CHUSE the Good Portion; And none have it, but they tha• Chuse it. A Christian is as much distinguished by ⟨p. 13⟩much denominated from, his Choice, as any •ng whatsoever. The Choice that a Good Christi•• makes, is of a Good Portion.

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First; A Good Christian does Refuse to be put •, with a Portion in the Things of this world. The present World, appears to a Good Christian, an Evil World. There appears nothing • horrible to a Christian, as to have This World • his Portion. A Christian does with Horror deprecate the Condition of those men,

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

The Second Proposition.

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