N00569:156
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.
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IT is not a Year ago, that there Died, a Serious, Virtuous, Hopeful Young man, among us; whose Name was, NATHANAEL SHOVE. He was the Son of a Worthy Minister, whom, the Town of Taunton, Long Enjoyed, as their Watchful Pastor. But being Arrested by a Languishing and Consuming Sickness, he did with his Dying Hand, Write about Threescore Texts of Scripture, which God had made more singularly useful unto him; whereto he added this Account of his Experiences.
IT is not a Year ago, that there Dy'd, a Serious, Vertuous, Hopeful Young man, among us; whose Name was, NATHANAEL SHOVE. He was the Son of a Worthy Minister, whom, the Town of Taunton, Long Enjoy'd, as their Watchful Pastor. But being Arrested by a Languishing and Consuming Sickness, he did with his Dying Hand, Write about Threescore Texts of Scripture, which God had made more singularly useful unto him; whereto he added this Account of his Experiences.
February 3. 1691, 2. Having for a Long Time, been Lame, and much Afflicted in Body and Spirit, I am by Meditation brought to Look back, and see Gods former and present Dealings with me; and my own Behaviour under them; which, if I know my own Heart, I set down for my own Warning, and the promotion of Repentance in me; and, An Example to OTHERS, who may view it after ⟨p. 86⟩