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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.
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.
And yet again there were these Considerations in his Mind.
Had I not better seek the Lord Christ, while I have a Time of Prosperity and Peace, while he offers himself to me, saying, Come unto me, and I ⟨p. 10⟩will save thee, and lay all thy Burdens upon me, and I will sustain thee: Than in Affliction to cry, and not be heard? when he stretcheth forth his Hand and says, Believe on me and thou shalt be saved; and now to Day he offers himself, shall I refuse, and say, Lord, To Morrow?