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The balance of the sanctuary. : A short and plain essay; declaring, the true balance wherein every thing should be weighed, and, detecting, the false balance wherein many things are weighed, among the children of men. A lecture; in the audience of the General Assembly at Boston, Oct. 5. 1727. [One line from Leviticus]

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1727.
Call number: 24124
Creator: Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (12mo)
Associated organization: Massachusetts.
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A good evening for the best of dayes. : An essay, to manage an action of trespass, against those who mispend the Lords-Day evening, in such things as have a tendency to defeat the good of the day. A sermon preached in the audience of the General Assembly, at Boston, 4 d. 9 m. 1708. And, published, by the order of the House of Representatives. [Three lines from Psalms]
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Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness. : Four discourses, accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness. The first, concerning the methods wherein men ought to engage both themselves and their houses in the service of God. The second, concerning the right and best waies of redeeming time in the world. The third, concerning the carriage which we should have under trials used by God upon us. The fourth, concerning the end which in our desires of life, we should propound unto ourselves. Preached partly at Boston, partly at Charlston [sic]. By Cotton Mather, pastor of a church in Boston. Published by a gentleman lately restored from threatning sickness; as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery
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The wonders of the invisible world. : Observations as well historical as theological, upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils· Accompanyʻd with, I. Some accounts of the grievous molestations, by daemons and witchcrafts, which have lately annoy'd the countrey; and the trials of some eminent malefactors executed upon occasion thereof: with several remarkable curiosities therein ocurring. II. Some counsils, directing a due improvement of the terrible things, lately done, by the unusual & amazing range of evil spirits, in our neighbourhood: & the methods to prevent the wrongs which those evil angels may intend against all sorts of people among us; especially in accusations of the innocent. III. Some conjectures upon the great events, likely to befall, the world in general, and New- England in particular; as also upon the advances of the time, when we shall see better dayes. IV A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swedeland, very much r
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Of credulity and incredulity, in things natural, civil, and divine. : Wherein, among other things, the sadducism of these times, in denying spirits, witches, and supernatural operations, by pregnant instances, and evidences, is fully confuted: Epicurus his cause, discussed, and the jugling and false dealing, lately used, to bring him, and atheism, into credit, clearly dicovered: the use and necessity of ancient learning, against the innovating humour, all along proved, and asserted
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The real Christian, or A treatise of effectual calling. : Wherein the work of God in drawing the soul to Christ being opened according to the Holy Sciptures, some things required by our late divines as necessary to a right preparation for Christ, and true closing with Christ, which have caused, and do still cause much trouble to those worthy men, brought to the ballance [sic] of the sanctuary, there weighed, and accordingly judged. To which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianism, upon occasion of the person of Christ, which i touched in the discourse
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