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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.
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Never did I see more Caution against Hypocrisy, than what was in him; and a certain Self-abhorrence accompanying of it, caused to proceed from him no Expressions, but those of an Abased Soul. When his Brother having recited the Terms of the Gospel to him, with a design to obtain from him a Renewal of his Explicit Consent thereunto, asked him, Whether he did not judge himself Sincere in that Consent? He only replied, I should think so, if it were not for the Seventeenth of Jeremiah, and the Ninth.
Never did I see more Caution against Hypocrisie, than what was in him; and a certain Self-abhorrence accompanying of it, caused to proceed from him no Expressions, but those of an Abased Soul. When his Brother having recited the Terms of the Gospel to him, with a design to obtain from him a Renewal of his Explicit Consent thereunto, asked him, Whether he did not judge himself Sincere in that Consent? He only replied, I should think so, if it were not for the Seventeenth of Jeremiah, and the Ninth.
He was Dejected, yet not Despairing; and he discovered a wonderfully Gracious, when he had not a Joyful Frame. He was all made up of Longings and Breathings after all the fullness of God, when he could not or would not pretend unto any Confidence of his Acceptance with the Lord.
He was Dejected, yet not Despairing; and he discôvered a wonderfully Gracious, when he had not a Joyful Frame. He was all made up of Longings and Breathings after all the fulness of God, when he could not or would not pretend unto any Confidence of his Acceptance with the Lord.
In the time of his Health, he had not been without the comfortable Persuasions for which he followed hard after God. In one place, I find him saying (on such a ⟨p. 58⟩