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

Let us Remember the virtuous Example of them that have been good betimes, especially the Holy Pattern of the Holy Jesus. It is said in Heb. 13. 7. Remember them whose Faith is to be followed: So it may be urged, Remember them whose Youth is to be followed: If we remember them, we shall remember God. There have been young Persons that have had the Grace of Forty at the Age of Twenty in them. Sometimes a young Man has given up himself to God by a Covenant never to be forgotten. A young Man has maintained a course of daily supplication, and besides often had his extraordinary Days ⟨p. 82⟩of Prayer and Praise; a young Man has upheld a course of daily Meditation, and besides accustomed himself to read the Scripture with such Attention, as to fetch a Note and a Wish out of every Verse before him, such an one I have lately followed unto the Grave: Many more such Instances of Early Piety, perhaps a Young Man here and there may afford unto us: O now, Go thou and do likewise.

Let us Remember the virtuous Example of them that have been good betimes, especially the Holy Pattern of the Holy Jesus. It is said in Heb. 13. 7. Remember them whose Faith is to be followed: So it may be urged, Remember them whose Youth is to be followed: If we remember them, we shall remember God. There have been young Persons that have had the Grace of Forty at the Age of Twenty in them. Sometimes a young Man has given up himself to God by a Covenant never to be forgotten. A young Man has maintain'd a course of daily supplication, and besides often had his extraordinary Dayes