Quotes by Cotton Mather - Page 1

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
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Opportunity
Compassion
Second Chance
Talent
Talents
Opportunities
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
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History
Blame
Events
Praise
Stories
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Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.
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Devotion
Ignorance
Mother
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There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
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Ignorant
Pray
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Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
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Daughter
Mother
Prosperity
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
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Destructive
Done
Ignorance
Thee
World
Ah
Chase
Shall
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A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
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Aggravation
Salt
School
Hath
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
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Combination
Firsts
Mankind
Nurse
Combinations
Societies
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Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
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Bed
Children
Devil
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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
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Land
Passing
Wilderness
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That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
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Devil
Doubted
Influence
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You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.
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Bumps
Missing
World
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Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
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Believe
Evil
Thinking
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The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
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Diligence
Heard
May
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!
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War
Bears
Dying
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Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.
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Fishing
Lakes
Sea
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What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
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Agony
Frequency
Impossible
Saved
Asked
Deplorable
Nor
Weighty
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Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
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Abuse
Charity
May
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That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.
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Devil
Ignorance
Scary
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I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way
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Children
Prayer
Reading
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You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.
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Littles
May
Passionate
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Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.
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Book
Reading
Taught Us
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If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?
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Jesus
Church
Dancing
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Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.
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Cups
Reading
Soul
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What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That they were all poor, weak, unlearned men.' The sort of men sometime called 'Puritans' in the English nation have been reproached with the same character. . . But when truth shall have liberty to speak, it will be known that Christianity never was more expressed unto the life than in the lives of the persons that have been thus reproached.
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Book
Christian
Writing
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