Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully…

Name: Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully…
Author: Cotton Mather

Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully be attempted, for the hope of the flock. In a funeral sermon upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever. The ancient and Honourable master of the Free-School in Boston. Who left off, but when mortality took him off, in August, 1708. the ninety fourth year of his age. : With an elegy and an epitaph upon him. / By one that was once a scholar to him. ; [One line epigram in Latin]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1708

[6], 34 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 13k words · Evans 1361

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An ESSAY upon Well-Taught Children; And upon an Able and Faithful T… › DOCTRINE. That Saving Wisdom is to be fetch'd from the Knowledge of…: DOCTRINE. That Saving Wisdom is to be fetch'd from the Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures…

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:42p. 5

Another main stroke in Religion is, REPENTANCE towards God. Repentance is a Resipiscence, of Growing Wise again. It must be Wisdom, to Abhor Sin, to Avoid Sin; Sin is always Folly; To Sin, is to Do very Foolishly. And, Repentance, This will be unto Salvation.

:43p. 5

There is no man, but what will own, 'Tis the Wisdom of every man, to Save his own Soul: For, What is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own Soul? Now the Issue of conformity to the Rules of Religion, will be the Salvation of the Soul. We read, Heb. 5.9. CHRIST, is the Author of Eternal Salvation, unto all them that obey Him.

:44p. 5–6¶2

II. Our KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, is that by which we come to know the Rules of Religion, and be Religiously wise unto Salvation. The Rules of our Holy Religion, are all of them delivered in those Oracles of God, which we call, The Holy Scriptures. If ever we come unto Salvation, it must be by conversing with the Holy Scriptures. We are so called upon; Joh. 5.39. Search the Holy Scriptures, for in them ye think, ye have Eternal Life: and they are they who testify of me. It was very Fit, that the Will of God, giving us the Rules of Living unto Him, should be contained in some Writings or other. These Inspired Writings which we have in our Old and New Testament, are the only Ones, that can pretend unto this Dignity. In these Holy Scriptures we have the Rules of Religion, and the Rules by the Observation whereof we shall be wise unto Salvation. Here, […] i• the Gospel, whereof we are told; ⟨p. 6⟩

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