Essays to Do Good: Addressed to All Christians, Whether in Public Or Private Capacities (Classic Reprint)

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But as for you, who have been brought home to God, you have great cause not only to lament the dark days of your unregeneracy, in which you produéed only the unfruitful works of darkness, but also that you have done so little since God has quickened you and enabled you to do better. How little have you lived up to those strains of gratitude which might justly have been expected from you since God brought you into his marvellous light The best of us may mourn in his complaints, and say, O Lord, how little good have I done, compared with what I might have done Let the sense of this cause us to loathe and judge ourselves before the Lord; let it fill us with shame, and abase us wonderfully. Let us, like David, water our couch with tears, when we consider how little good we have done. 0 that our heads were waters, because they have been so dry of all thoughts to do good. 0 that our eyes were a fountain of tears.

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Cotton Mather was born on February 12, 1663 and died on February 13, 1728. He was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister and author. He is also remembered for his scientific role in early hybridization experiments and his stance as an early proponent of inoculation in America. Cotton Mather wrote more than 450 books and pamphlets, and his literary works made him one of the most influential religious leaders in America. Mather set the moral tone in the colonies for people to return to the theological roots of Puritanism. The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution. His literary works include: Boston Ephermeris, Pillars of Salt, Bonifacius, and The Christian Philosopher.

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