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Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…
Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ... changed earth for heaven, Oct. 17. 1688 whereto are added some discourses on the true nature, the great reward, and the best season of such a walk with God as he left a pattern of.
London: printed by J. Astwood for John Dunton, 1689
THE LIFE and DEATH OF Mr. NATHANAEL MATHER. › Part 2: II. His PIETY.
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Fourthly, He was one that mortified and conquered the SINS which were a Vexation to him. There were some Sins which gave to this Young Man a more violent, and outrageous disturbance that he could without much passion bear• These did he contrive and conflict much in his Oppositions to, and gave not over ⟨p. 47⟩till he had a certain Prospect of a Victory.
Fourthly, He was one that mortified and conquer'd the SINS which were a Vexation to him. There were some Sins which gave to this Young Man a more violent, and outragious disturbance that he could without much passion bear• These did he contrive and conflict much in his Oppositions to, and gave not over ⟨p. 47⟩till he had a certain Prospect of a Victory.
Of all the things which ever troubled him, I know not whether any were more grievous than the Blasphemous Injections which like fiery venomous darts inflamed sometimes his very Soul within him.
Of all the things which ever troubled him, I know not whether any were more grievous than the Blasphemous Injections which like fiery venemous darts inflam'd sometimes his very Soul within him.
It may be some Testimony of Sincerity, when Persons are not a little afflicted for, as well as assaulted with, Blasphemous Imaginations about God; which rise within us in contradiction to all that Reverence of him, which we know not how to lay aside.