“Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.”
Quote by Increase Mather
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Increase Mather
Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 – August 23, 1723) was a prominent New England Puritan minister, scholar, and president of Harvard College. Born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to a distinguished ministerial family, he was educated at Harvard and later in Ireland and England. He served as pastor of Boston's North Church for 57 years and was a key figure in religious reform, education, and colonial politics. He played a controversial role in the Salem witch trials, initially supporting them but later opposing the use of spectral evidence. He also successfully negotiated a new charter for the Massachusetts Colony in England. Mather's legacy as a religious leader, educator, and political representative endures in early American history. more
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