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A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of…
A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of that virtue for all Christians, is described. Delivered in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England. June 5th. 1710. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from I Corinthians]A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of that vertue for all Christians, is described. Delivered in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England. June 5th. 1710. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from I Corinthians]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1710
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There are also Errors which are Errors Secuti, the Errors of the Age which the Servants of God have been wont faithfully and courageously to witness against them. The Prophet Complains of such as were not so, Jer. 9. 3. They are not Valiant for the Truth. Among the Children of Israel, Idolatry was the great Sin which People were then guilty of: Therefore did the holy Prophets in a Singular manner set themselves to Testify against that iniquity. There was a Time when Arianism was the prevailing Error of the Christian World. When an Arian was got into the Imperial throne, on a sudden the World was become an Arian. Then did Athanasius acquit himself like a Champion of the Lord, not ceasing to bear his Testimony against the grand Error of that Time; for which he suffered Banishment more than once, and at last Died an Exile. Then was unus Athanasius contra t•tum Mundum.
There are also Errors which are Errores Secuti, the Errors of the Age which the Servants of God have been wont faithfully and couragiously to witness against them. The Prophet Complains of such as were not so, Jer. 9. 3. They are not Valiant for the Truth. Among the Children of Israel, Idolatry was the great Sin which People were then guilty of: Therefore did the holy Prophets in a Singular manner set themselves to Testify against that iniquity. There was a Time when Arianisme was the prevailing Error of the Christian World. When an Arian was got into the Imperial throne, on a sudden the World was become an Arian. Then did Athanasius acquit himself like a Champion of the Lord, not ceasing to bear his Testimony against the grand Error of that Time; for which he suffered Banishment more than once, and at last Died an Exile. Then was unus Athanasius contra t•tum Mundum.
There is Corruption in Manners as well as in Doctrine, which the Lords Servants should show ⟨p. 30⟩