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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
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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GOD was pleased by an Early Death, to take SARAH DERBY, out of this present Evil World. Her Expectation of, and her Preparation for, her Death, even in the Time of her greatest Health, was more than usual; and having by an Exemplary Conversation Recommended Early Religion unto those that knew her, about the Age of Nineteen, She left them to Follow her Faith, and Consider the End of her Conversation.
But a few months before she Dyed, she gave to one of her Friends, this Account of the Divine Dispensations towards her Better […] ▪
But a few months before she Dyed, she gave to one of her Friends, this Account of the Divine Dispensations towards her Better 〈…〉 ▪
My Soul desires to Believe and Profess that Holy Religion, which is Contained in Mr. Cottons Catechism. The Spirit of God has been a Long Time Striving with me; tho' my Father Died when I was a Child, yet God hath been a Father to me. He left me a Mother, who did abundantly put me upon Secret Prayer, and upon Turni from Sin, when I was about Six Years Old. But I thought my self Too Young for such things; so I neglected my Duty to God. At length, God made my Baptism to be