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Religious societies. Proposals for the revival of dying religion, by well ordered societies for…
Religious societies. Proposals for the revival of dying religion, by well ordered societies for that purpose. : With a brief discourse, offered unto a religious society, on the first day of their meeting. : [One line from I Thessalonians]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for John Phillips, 1724
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.
VIII. ESPECIALLY, when a Society, shall set apart, whole Days for Prayer with Fasting before the Lord, as it may be proper for them to do now and then upon some Occasions: The Success of such Days has been sometimes very marvellous: And the Savour of them left on the Minds of the Saints, who carried them on, has been such as notably to prepare them, to show forth the Death of the Lord at his Table; Yea, to meet with their own Death; when GOD pleases to Order it.
IX. IT is very sure, the Devotions first, and then after them the Conferences carried on in such a Society, will not only have a notable Tendency to produce the Comfort of Love in the Hearts of Good Men towards one another; But also their Abilities will be thereby sharpened and quickened; they will be rendered more Able, to serve many valuable Interests.
IX. IT is very sure, the Devotions first, and then after them the Conferences carried on in such a Society, will not only have a notable Tendency to produce the Comfort of Love in the Hearts of Good Men towards one another; But also their Abilities will be thereby sharpened and quickened; they will be rendred more Able, to serve many valuable Interests.
X. UNEXPECTED Opportunities to Do Good, will arise unto such a Society: But especially if a Practice of this Importance were once taken up; That the Men who compose the Society, would now and then spend half an Hour together by themselves, in considering on that Question, What Good is there to be done?