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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
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Sect. 3. About a a Year and a half before he Dyed, the Good Spirit of God, Blessed him, with yet a more thorough Conviction of his Misery by reason of Sin both Original, and Actual: whence tho' he had been ⟨p. 105⟩such a Pattern of Innocency, yet he would aggravate his own Sinfulness, with Lamentations truly extraordinary. And for his Relief against the Terrors of God, wherewith he was now Distracted, he was brought unto an utter Despair of his own Righteousnesses and Abilities; but in this Condition, he came to Adore the Grace of God, offering a JESUS who is Able to Save unto the Uttermost: In his Longings to enjoy the Love of God, through' Jesus, He was like the Hart panting after the Water-brooks!
Sect. 3. About a a Year and a half before he Dyed, the Good Spirit of God, Blessed him, with yet a more thorow Conviction of his Misery by reason of Sin both Original, and Actual: whence tho' he had been ⟨p. 105⟩such a Pattern of Innocency, yet he would aggravate his own Sinfulness, with Lamentations truly extraordinary. And for his Relief against the Terrors of God, wherewith he was now Distracted, he was brought unto an utter Dispair of his own Righteousnesses and Abilities; but in this Condition, he came to Adore the Grace of God, offering a JESUS who is Able to Save unto the Uttermost: In his Longings to enjoy the Love of God, thro' Jesus, He was like the Hart panting after the Water-brooks!
Sect. 4. The Wounds of his Spirit, were accompanied with a Languishing and Consuming of his Flesh; yet with Great Patience he endured the Hand of God, and he followed the Lord with Prayers, with Cries, with Tears, for the manifestation of the Divine Love unto him.
Sect. 4. The Wounds of his Spirit, were accompany'd with a Languishing and Consuming of his Flesh; yet with Great Patience he endured the Hand of God, and he followed the Lord with Prayers, with Cries, with Tears, for the manifestation of the Divine Love unto him.