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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.
In one of his last Minutes, a faithful Minister said unto him, Find you not Comfort in the Lord Jesus Christ? To which he made only this discreet and humble Answer, I Endeavour to do those things which will issue in Comfort; and then he quickly surrendered up his Redeemed and Renewed Soul unto him who had loved him, and washed away his sins in his own blood.
In one of his last Minutes, a faithful Minister said unto him, Find you not Comfort in the Lord Jesus Christ? To which he made only this discreet and humble Answer, I Endeavour to do those things which will issue in Comfort; and then he quickly surrendred up his Redeemed and Renewed Soul unto him who had loved him, and washed away his sins in his own blood.
Thus he went away to the heavenly Society, where he is beholding the Face of God in Righteousness, and solacing himself in the Company not only of his blessed Grandfathers, and Uncles, and all the Spirits of the Just; but of the amiable Jesus himself, which is by far the best of all. His Tears are all dried up, his Fears vanished away, and his Hopes more than answered in Joys unspeakable, and full of glory.
Thus he went away to the heavenly Society, where he is beholding the Face of God in Righteousness, and solacing himself in the Company not only of his blessed Grandfathers, and Ʋncles, and all the Spirits of the Just; but of the amiable Jesus himself, which is by far the best of all. His Tears are all dried up, his Fears vanished away, and his Hopes more than answered in Joys unspeakable, and full of glory.
His Elder Brother having thus written of him, now satisfies himself in the Duty therein done to God and Man; and would keep waiting for his own Change, until, Thy Free Grace, O my God, shall give unto the most miserable Sinner in the World, an admission into Emanuel's Land.