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Awakening Truth's
, 69. See also 66-68, 70.
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| 21. Increase Mather,
Practical Truth's Tending To Promote Holiness
, 61-62, for a representative statement about living with
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| one's attention fixed on Christ. In
The Doctrine of Divine Providence
(Boston, 1684), 147, Increase Mather tells the story of a poor husbandman who, when asked what he was doing cutting wood replied: "I am cutting wood for God." This was the perfect reply and Mather commented, "you should buy and sell and build houses and ships, and all with some respect to the glory of God." (147)
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| 22. Increase Mather,
Some Important Truths Concerning Conversion
, 16-17;
Ichabod
31-32.
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| 23.
Practical Truths Tending To Promote . . . Godliness
, 160-79.
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| 24.
A Plain Discourse
, 32. See also 41-57; and
Sermons Wherein Those Eight Characters
, 279-96.
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| 25.
Ibid
. 32-41, and Increase Mather,
Awakening Truth's
, 84-5.
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| 26.
A Plain Discourse
, 48-51, for Increase's argument and the quotations. These points are made in many other sermons cited in this chapter.
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| 27. Increase Mather,
Sermons Wherein Those Eight Characters
, 294. See, too,
An Ernest Exhortation To The Children of New England
, 33; and
Awakening Truths
, 66-69.
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| 28. See above, Chapter 4.
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| 29. See the works cited in notes 26 and 27.
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| 30. These matters are discussed above in Chapter 7, and below in Chapter 12. The Brattle Street Church in Boston did not require a relation of conversion experience for membership.
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