N00569:105
Early religion. Urged in a sermon. the duties, wherein, and the reasons wherefore, young…
Early religion. Urged in a sermon. the duties, wherein, and the reasons wherefore, young people should become religious. Whereto are added, the extracts of several papers, written by several persons, who are dying in their youth, left behind them those admonitions for the young survivors; with brief memoirs relating to the exemplary lives of some such, that have gone from hence to their everlasting rest. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines of Scripture text]Early religion. Urged in a sermon. the duties, wherein, and the reasons wherefore, young people should become religious. Whereto are added, the extracts of several papers, written by several persons, who are dying in their youth, left behind them those admonitions for the young survivers; with brief memoirs relating to the exemplary lives of some such, that have gone from hence to their everlasting rest. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines of Scripture text]
Boston: printed by B.H. i.e for Michael Perry, 1694
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.
There Dyed among us, in the year 1688. a Young man, upon whose Grave-Stone there were those words deservedly Inscribed, The Ashes of an Hard Student, a Good Scholar, and a Great Christian. I shall for some Reasons forbear to mention so much as the Name of this Exemplary Young man; much less give any part of the Character which he had for those things that made him Exemplary. But I shall truly Copy out for the Young Reader, a Few [never yet exposed] of those many papers, which this Young man left behind him, when he left the world. And These I offer, single▪ I out from the rest, because they are particularly accommodated unto some Designs of Religion, which I was Desirous to have particularly Recommended.
There Dyed among us, in the year 1688. a Young man, upon whose Grave-Stone there were those words deservedly Inscribed, The Ashes of an Hard Student, a Good Scholar, and a Great Christian. I shall for some Reasons forbear to mention so much as the Name of this Exemplary Young man; much less give any part of the Character which he had for those things that made him Exemplary. But I shall truly Copy out for the Young Reader, a Few [never yet exposed] of those many papers, which this Young man left behind him, when he left the world. And These I offer, single▪ I out from the rest, because they are particularly accomodated unto some Designs of Religion, which I was Desirous to have particularly Recommended.
T••e, First, his Explicit Consent unto the ⟨p. 74⟩proposals of the New-Covenant; That I find written by him in these terms.
I do Renounce all the Vanities and wretched Idols and Evil Courses of the World. I do Choose, & will ever Have, the Great God, for my Best Good, my Last End, my Only Lord. He shall be the Only One, in th Glorifying and Enjoying of whom sha be my Welfare; and in the Serving of whom shall be my Work. I will ever be Rendering unto the Lord Jesus Christ, my proper Acknowledgements, as unto my Priest, my Prophet, and my King; and the Physician of my Soul. I will ever be Studying what is my Duty in these Things; & wherein I find my self […] fall short, I will ever count it my Grief, and Shame; and betake my self to the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant. Now, Humbly Imploring the Grace of the Mediator to be sufficient for me, I do as a further Solemnity, hereunto Subscribe my Name, with both Heart and Hand.