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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
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.
PROP. I.
They that Walk with God, shall be ⟨p. 27⟩Taken by God from their Mortal Estate on Earth. The Scholars of the College at Bethel, said once unto Elijah, in 2 King. 2. 3. Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it. In like manner it may be said unto the Body of the Christian; Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy Master, thy Spirit from thy Head, into another state one day? Every Believer may reply, Yes, I know that it will be so. Our Estate in this World, is an Estate of Trial; God is here Trying, and Framing, and Shaping of us, in order to everlasting Happiness or Misery. And it is an Estate of Trouble too: Our Fall from God, is the occasion of the many Distresses that belong unto it. This Mortal Estate of ours, the Lord will one day take us from. One day, but on what day shall this Deliverance be? Truly at our last day, at the Day of our Death, at the day that we are most ready to tremble at: On that Day the Lord will deliver us from the hand of all our enemies, and from the hand of sin.
They that Walk with God, shall be ⟨p. 27⟩Taken by God from their Mortal Estate on Earth. The Scholars of the Colledge at Bethel, said once unto Elijah, in 2 King. 2. 3. Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it. In like manner it may be said unto the Body of the Christian; Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy Master, thy Spirit from thy Head, into another state one day? Every Believer may reply, Yes, I know that it will be so. Our Estate in this World, is an Estate of Tryal; God is here Trying, and Framing, and Shaping of us, in order to everlasting Happiness or Misery. And it is an Estate of Trouble too: Our Fall from God, is the occasion of the many Distresses that belong unto it. This Mortal Estate of ours, the Lord will one day take us from. One day, but on what day shall this Deliverance be? Truly at our last day, at the Day of our Death, at the day that we are most ready to tremble at: On that Day the Lord will deliver us from the hand of all our enemies, and from the hand of sin.