Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
Cotton MatherWilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
Cotton MatherCharity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
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