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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.
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 ⟨p. 110⟩my Terror. I had been Baptised; and hearing Mr.—Say, How Baptism obliged us to put on Christ, I was terrified to think, how little I had answered my Baptismal Obligations. It pleased God, in the Year 1688. To lay me under Sore Sickness. I was then Awakened with a Sense of my Condition, and made many Promises, about walking with God: Which I doubt I have not kept as I should have done. At last, it hath pleased God, by the Ministry of— to bring me home unto Himself. […] gone through much trouble of […] ▪ about my own State, and wondered, that I have been out of Hell. But I have […] to Bless God for ever, for what he has done for me; and particularly for my Acquaintance, with a number of Young Women, who have been very helpful to One Another in the Ways of God. I have been much Awakened & Comforted by Mr. Increase Mathers Book Entitled, A Call to the Rising Generation. And I have been much Concerned that I might not resist the Strivings of the Holy Spirit because it is said, in