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

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Fb&c Limited, 15 dec 2018 - 236 pagina's
Excerpt from Essays to Do Good: Addressed to All Christians, Whether in Public or Private Capacities

In the present edition, this title is abridged, and the running title, used by the author in the original wmk, is substituted, essays TO no good, which the reader may understand to signify, attempts to do good which was probably the author's intention in the use of that phrase; or, he may con sider this little volume as composed of a set of Essays, on the noble subject of doing good in this present evil world.

The various methods of doing good, here proposed to the public, derive no small recommendation from the example of the excellent author, whose Whole life was a practical com ment on the subject, and who might have said to the readers of his own days, be ye followers of me To those who may not have had an opportunity to peruse his life, the following slight sketch of it may be acceptable.

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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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