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Cotton Mather Quotes: 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.
         

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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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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Our opportunities to do good are our talents.



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Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.



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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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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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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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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.



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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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