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Orphanotrophium. Or, Orphans well-provided for. : An essay, on the care taken in the divine Providence for children when their parents forsake them. With proper advice to both parents and children, that the care of heaven may be the more conspicuously & comfortably obtained for them. Offered in a sermon, on a day of prayer, kept with a religious family, (28.d. 1.m. 1711) whose honourable parents were lately by mortality taken from them

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1711.
Call number: 200090
Creator: Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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The faith of the fathers. Or, The articles of the true religion, : all of them exhibited in the express words of the Old Testament· Partly, to confirm those who do profess that religion of God, and His Messiah. But chiefly, to engage the Jewish nation, unto the religion of their patriarchs; and, bring down the hearts of the fathers into the children, and the disobedient unto the wisdom of the just; and so, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord
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The orphan's best legacy: or, God's parental care of bereaved children: : a discourse occasion'd by the death of the Honourable Samuel Sewall Esq; who departed this life, Jan. 1. 1729,30. Aetatis 78. By his son, Joseph Sewall, Pastor of the South Church in Boston. [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
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The god-father's advice to his son, : shewing the necessity of performing the baptismal vow, and the danger of neglecting it. With general instructions to young persons to lead a religious life, and prepare them for their confirmation, and worthy receiving of the blessed Sacrament. Very necessary for parents, &c. to give their children, or others committed to their care
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[God's mercy surmounting man's cruelty, : exemplified in the captivity and redemption of Elizabeth Hanson, wife of John Hanson, of Knoxmarsh at Keacheachy, in Dover township, who was taken captive with her children, and maid-servant, by the Indians in New-England, in the yea 1724. In which are inserted, sundry remarkable preservations, deliverances, and marks of the care and kindness of Providence over her and her children, worthy to be remembered. The substance of which was taken from her own mouth, and now published for a general service.]
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The rebels Turkish tyranny, in their march Decem. 24. 1641. : As it was taken out of a letter sent from Mr. Witcome a merchant in Kingsale to a brother of his here. Shewing how cruelly they put them to the sword, ravished religious women, and put their children upon red hot spits before their parents eyes; throw them in the fire, and burn them to ashes; cut off their eares, and nose, put out their eyes; cut off their armes, and legges, broyle them at the fire, cut out their tongues, and thrust hot irons down their throats, drown them; dash out their brains, and such like other cruelty not heard of amongst Christians. With a great and bloody skirmish fought between Captain Hull, and the rebels: and the names of the chief rebels of that regiment. And the firing of a town within a mile of Dublin
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The orphan's best legacy: or, God's parental care of bereaved children: : a discourse occasion'd by the death of the Honourable Samuel Sewall Esq; who departed this life, Jan. 1. 1729,30. Aetatis 78. By his son, Joseph Sewall, Pastor of the South Church in Boston. [Nine lines of Scripture texts]