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

Let us Tread in the Steps of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we shall then walk with God: Part of his Errand into the World, was to set us an Example of such a Walk. Now we are told, in 1 John 2. 6. We ought so to walk, even as he walked. O look upon the walk of him that kept close to God, without one wry Step, one wrong Step, for above thirty Years together in the World. What a sort of a Walk was His? We read in Act. 10. 38. He went about doing good. He walked in all manner of Piety and Charity: He Walked in a perpetual endeavour to please and serve His Father: Sic oculus, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat; That was his Walk; and it is said, in 1 Pet. 1. 21. He has left us an Example, that we should follow his Steps. Of late Years among the Mahometans, ⟨p. 19⟩even among the Barbarous Turks themselves, there are sprung up a vast Sect of Men, who are called, The good Followers of the Messiah. These hold that Christ is God, and that he is the Redeemer of the World; and they are of such Repute, that it is an Applause among them, You are the Follower of the Messiah. What shall be said of us then, if we are not the Followers of our Blessed Jesus? Verily, the Men of Arabia and Anatolia will condemn us in the Judgment of the Lord.