Bonifacius: An Essay to Do Good (Classic Reprint): Mather.
This essay is by those who desire to answer the great end of life and to do good while they live. It is a book offered, first, in general, unto all Christians, in a personal capacity, or in a relative. Then more particularly unto magistrates, unto ministers, unto physicians, unto lawyers, unto.Excerpt from Bonifacius: An Essay to Do Good Though the year 1721-22 rs far beyond the production of Bonifacius, rt rs of rnterest to note his pathetrc discouragement rn dorng good after hrs proposals for smallpox inoculation were not only vigorously opposed but he hrmself, after he had been revrled and persecuted, seemed completely rejected Before a meetrng of mrnrsters rn November, 1721, he.Cotton Mather. Pastor at Boston North Church. Birthplace: Boston, MA Location of death: Boston, MA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Copps Hill Burial Ground, Bost. American Congregational clergyman and author, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 12th of February 1663. He was the grandson of Richard Mather, and the eldest child of.
Buy Bonifacius: an essay upon the good, that is to be devised and designed by those who desire to answer the great end of life, and to do good while they live. by Cotton Mather (ISBN: 9781275711884) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.Without wavering from the central Puritan conviction that man exists to glorify God, Cotton Mather exhorted all Christians to search out opportunities to do good in the world; and it was this concept, Levin argues, that gave the book its impact on the thought of succeeding generations, from the moralizing of Benjamin Franklin to twentieth.
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