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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 2: II. His PIETY.
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.
Feb. 19. 1682. What shall I do? What shall I do to be saved? Without a Christ I am undone, undone, undone for Evermore! O Lord, let me have Christ, tho' I lye in the Mire for ever! O for a Christ! O for a Christ! a Christ! Lord, Give me a Christ or I dye!
Feb. 19. 1682. What shall I do? What shall I do to be sav'd? Without a Christ I am undone, undone, undone for Evermore! O Lord, let me have Christ, tho' I lye in the Mire for ever! O for a Christ! O for a Christ! a Christ! Lord, Give me a Christ or I dye!
It was now another of his Registered Meditations.
It was now another of his Registred Meditations.
I have been in a Great Hesitancy, whether I should choose Jesus Christ, for my Prophet, Priest and King, with all his Inconveniences, to take up my Cross and follow him: Wherefore I do now take him as mine; my whole Christ, and my only Christ; and I am resolved to seek him. All that I have shall be at his Service, and all my Members, and all my Powers, shall endeavour his Glory.
I have been in a Great Hesitancy, whether I should choose Jesus Christ, for my Prophet, Priest and King, with all his Inconveniencies, to take up my Cross and follow him: Wherefore I do now take him as mine; my whole Christ, and my only Christ; and I am resolved to seek him. All that I have shall be at his Service, and all my Members, and all my Powers, shall endeavour his Glory.