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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. 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.
It was also Observed and Admired, that when he was abroad at the Public Worship, in the time of his Weakness, he would stand the whole time of the Long exercises, and be so affectionately attentive, that one might see every Sentence uttered in those Exercises, make some impression upon him. The best Christians in the place professed themselves, made ashamed by the Fervency of this Tongue Disciple! And in Days of Public Humiliations, or Thanksgivings, kept with regard unto ⟨p. 106⟩the general Circumstances of the Country, he would bear his part, with such a sense of the Public Troubles or Mercies, as argued more than a common measure of a Public Spirit in him.
It was also Observed and Admired, that when he was abroad at the Publick Worship, in the time of his Weakness, he would stand the whole time of the Long exercises, and be so affectionately attentive, that one might see every Sentence uttered in those Exercises, make some impression upon him. The best Christians in the place professed thems••ves, made ashamed by the Fervency of this Toung Disciple! And in Days of Publick Humiliations, or Thanksgivings, kept with regard unto ⟨p. 106⟩the general Circumstances of the Countrey, he would bear his part, with such a sense of the Publick Troubles or Mercies, as argued more than a common measure of a Publick Spirit in him.