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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.
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?
More particularly;
WHO are to be called upon to do their Duty in coming to special Ordinances?
WHO is in any special Adversity, and what shall be done to comfort them?
WHAT Contention or Variance may there be among any Neighbours, and what may be done for the healing of it?