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

Every one must own, that however such things as these, in an old Man, may be below our Admiration; yet in a young Man, that out-lived not the Years which the Nodes of the Moon take to dispatch a Revolution, they deserve a Memory among them that may be Edified by such Exemplary Practices. Indeed, he was himself Extremely unsensible of the least worth or shine adorning of him; and in his whole Deportment he discovered a modest, an humble, and a deserved mien; which might be reckoned to bear little proportion with his other Accomplishments, were it not that the more gracious Men are, the more humble they always are; and they are the Fullest and Richest Ears of Corn, which most hang down towards the Ground. But while he in a sort wronged himself, to escape the bane and blame of Pride; it is a piece of pure Justice in the Survivors, to Embalm the Name of a Person thus desirable, since he is gone thither where he ⟨p. 55⟩has no Chaff to take fire at the sparks of our Praises.

Every one must own, that however such things as these, in an old Man, may be below our Admiration; yet in a young Man, that out-lived not the Years which the Nodes of the Moon take to dispatch a Revolution, they deserve a Memory among them that may be Edified by such Exemplary Pr•ctices. Indeed, he was himself Extreamly unsensible of the least worth or shine adorning of him; and in his whole Deportment he discovered a modest, an humble, and a deserved mein; which might be reck•ned to bear little proportion with his other Accomplishments, were it not that the more gracious Men are, the more humble they always are; and they are the Fullest and Richest Ears of Corn, which most hang down towards the Ground. But while he in a sort wronged himself, to escape the bane and blame of Pride; it is a piece of pure Justice in the Survivers, to Embalm the Name of a Person thus desirable, since he is gone thither where he ⟨p. 55⟩has no Chaff to take fire at the sparks of our Praises.