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Scripture referenced in this chapter 2
An HISTORICAL DISCOURSE Concerning the PREVALENCY OF PRAYER Wherein is shewed that New-England's late deliverance from the rage of the Heathen, is an eminent answer of prayer.
By INCREASE MATHER Teacher of a Church in Boston in New-England.
*Psalm 102:18.* This shall be written for the generation to come.
*James 5:17, 18.* Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the Earth by the space of three years and six months; and he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Preces et Lachrimae sunt Arma Ecclesiae. *Ambrosius.*
Oratio est vis Deo grata. *Tertul.*
BOSTON; Printed and sold by John Foster. 1677.
