Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…

He imagined that an incredible deal both of Truth and Grace, would in this way make its impression upon his Mind, (besides what Exercise of Wit it must have called for) and so most certainly it would have done; but before he had made much Progress in it, the Chariots of God fetched him away to that place in which a Jesus is a Bible to the there perfect Spirits of the Righteous.

He imagined that an incredible deal both of Truth and Grace, would in this way make its impression upon his Mind, (besides what Exercise of Wit it must have call'd for) and so most certainly it would have done; but before he had made much Progress in it, the Chariots of God fetcht him away to that place in which a Jesus is a Bible to the there perfect Spirits of the Righteous.

Such a thinking Person was he; and yet after so many kind of Thoughts in the ⟨p. 45⟩day, he could not rest a Night quietly, unless he composed himself for sleeping by thinking a little more.

Such a thinking Person was he; and yet after so many kind of Thoughts in the ⟨p. 45⟩day, he could not rest a Night quietly, unless he compos'd himself for sleeping by thinking a little more.

He knew that no better a Man than one of the Moral Heathens propounded a Nocturnal Self-Examination, as a part and cause of no little Wisdom, and that much more a sober Christian should endeavour to maintain a good understanding of himself, by such Nightly Recollections. Wherefore before the Slumbers of the Evening, this Young Man would put three General Questions to himself, with divers particular ones that were subordinate thereunto. The Questions were,