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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 3: III. His DEATH.
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.
III. His DEATH.
Too soon and too sad a thing for me to mention without Sighing, Ah my Brother, in my Lamentation over it. He had contracted an universal Ill Habit of Body; which was attended with a particular generation ⟨p. 56⟩of Ill Humours, where the Os Ileon and Os Sacrum join; from whence it fell into his Thigh, until there was a very large collection of it there.
Too soon and too sad a thing for me to mention without Sighing, Ah my Brother, in my Lamentation over it. He had contracted an universal Ill Habit of Body; which was attended with a particular generation ⟨p. 56⟩of Ill Humours, where the Os Ileon and Os Sacrum joyn; from whence it fell into his Thigh, until there was a very large collection of it there.
There was an Incision, with mature Advice made into the Tumour, about a Month before his Expiration, which gave good hopes of his Recovery into a capacity of serving the Church of God; but the Circulation, which was now given unto the putrid Juices which his Blood, through his continual and sedentary Studies, had been annoyed withal, soon enkindled a Fever, which burnt asunder the thread of this pious Life.