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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
This Person on his Death-bed complained to me, that Horrenda de Deo, Horrible Conceptions of God, buzzing about his mind, had been one of the bitterest of all his Trials: and I find his private Papers making sad Lamentations over the miseries of this annoyance. You shall read how he did encounter these Fiends, as one that was no Stranger to the Wars of the Lord.
This Person on his Death-bed complained to me, that Horrenda de Deo, Horrible Conceptions of God, buzzing about his mind, had been one of the bitterest of all his Tryals: and I find his private Papers making sad Lamentations over the miseries of this annoyance. You shall read how he did encounter these Fiends, as one that was no Stranger to the Wars of the Lord.