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...impossible in this age of ours; which, with its boasted civilization and culture, is an age of mental incertitude, social destraction and moral confusion. The daily excitement which prevails unfits the soul for meditation. If we could but be transferred to the age of Abraham, or David, or even Cotton Mather, it would be easy to live a sober and godly life. But now the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh, and of vain glory undermine the higher aims and motives. And then, all the world meets at our door - people of different habits and ways...
Such wishes are idle. We were born in this age with its luxury, excitement and doubt, and in it we must live. The times, however, are not without their advantages. Excitement, though it prevents quiet meditation, stimulates our divine impulses as well as our bodily passions. The age of Cotton Mather would seem cold to us. Wealth, too, brings with it endless good, and though inseparable from luxury, is the sole support of the great philanthropic schemes which are the mark of the Christian Church...
TREASURER H. G. C. AND P. S.The Rev. H. E. Cotton will conduct the last of the Advent services of the St. Paul's Society in 17 Gray's this evening from 7 till 7.30 o'clock. A full attendance is especially requested. All members of the University are cordially invited...
...nature out of which the college sprang, published on the 1st of March, 1700, his "Order of the Gospel Justified." "Sundry ministers of the Gospel in New England" answered him. The question was who should be counted true subjects of the Christian sacraments. When Increase Mather, with his son Cotton was defeated, it was a sign that the earnestness which existed in human life at-large had made itself felt within the church, and that the hard, close envelope of church discipline had been broken open...
...young clergyman - for it would seem that he was in orders, and his association with Emmanuel, the puritan seed-plot, had given a bent to his theological views - soon married Ann Sadler and drawn by those sympathies, we may well believe, which took Cotton and the other Emmanuel men to the New World, he is found before long in the New England Charlestown, where he built a house, which Judge Sewall tells us of, and which seems to have stood till the fire which swept the slopes of that peninsula during the battle of Bunker Hill, levelled...