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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 is Corruption in Manners as well as in Doctrine, which the Lords Servants should show ⟨p. 30⟩their Courage in bearing a due Testimony against it. Thus it was with the Jews after their Return from Captivity in Babylon; they did not Apostatize to an Idolatrous Worship; but there were great Immoralities found among them, Sabbath-breaking, Unlawful Marriages, Oppression of the Poor, and Scandalous Covetousness; against all which Ezra and Nehemiah were Faithful and Zealous Witnesses. Some of the Lords Servants have lost their Lives, and been Martyred for their Faithfulness in Testifying against the Ungodliness of Profane men. John Baptist would venture to Reprove Herod for his Scandalous Life, though he lost his Head for it. Ecclesiastical Writers inform us, that the Evangelist Timothy, when he saw the Multitude in the Streets with Clubs, and with Masks on, abominably Rude and Profane, in an Holy Zeal he Reproved them for their Evil Manners; at which they were so enraged, as that they fell upon him and Murdered him.
There is Corruption in Manners as well as in Doctrine, which the Lords Servants should show ⟨p. 30⟩their Courage in bearing a due Testimony against it. Thus it was with the Jews after their Return from Captivity in Babylon; they did not Apostatize to an Idolatrous Worship; but there were great Immoralities found among them, Sabbath-breaking, Unlawful Marriages, Oppression of the Poor, and Scandalous Covetousness; against all which Ezra and Nehemiah were Faithful and Zealous Witnesses. Some of the Lords Servants have lost their Lives, and been Martyred for their Faithfulness in Testifying against the Ungodliness of Profane men. John Baptist would venture to Reprove Herod for his Scandalous Life, though he lost his Head for it. Ecclesiastical Writers inform us, that the Evengelist Timothy, when he saw the Multitude in the Streets with Clubs, and with Masks on, abominably Rude and Profane, in an Holy Zeal he Reproved them for their Evil Manners; at which they were so enraged, as that they fell upon him and Murdered him.