N00569:99
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.
Appendix
Inasmuch as Example has a singular Force to Teach and Move the Beholder of it, We shall by way of Appendix unto our Meditations upon Early Religion, annex the Extracts of several Papers, which divers Pious Young Persons, who have Died among us, have Left Written for the Instruction, the Awakening, and the Encouragement of the Young Survivors. There have in this Country Expired sundry Young Persons, who under the Fore-bodings of their own premature Mortality, have drawn up their Affectionate and Experimental Resentments of Early Religion, which they have ⟨p. 73⟩Left behind them […] their Young, Friends, to improve as the best Legacies of the•• Friendship. I hope it will not be either Unacceptable or Unprofitable, for me to Communicate a few passages which I have seen in some of those Memorials: And unto those it may not be amiss to add a few Memoirs relating to the Exemplary Lives of some Young People, who have Gone from us, to the Rest of God. But, If One Come unto my Generation from the Dead, surely they will then Repent!
INasmuch as Example has a singular Force to Teach and Move the Beholder of it, We shall by way of Appendix unto our Meditations upon Early Religion, annex the Extracts of several Papers, which divers Pious Young Persons, who have Dy'd among us, have Left Written for the Instruction, the Awakening, and the Encouragement of the Young Survivers. There have in this Country Expired sundry Young Persons, who under the Fore-bodings of their own premature Mortality, have drawn up their Affectionate and Experimental Resentments of Early Religion, which they have ⟨p. 73⟩Left behind them 〈…〉 their Young, Friends, to improve as the best Legacies of the Friendship. I hope it will not be either Unacceptable or Unprofitable, for me to Communicate a few passages which I have seen in some of those Memorials: And unto those it may not be amiss to add a few Memoirs relating to the Exemplary Lives of some Young People, who have Gone from us, to the Rest of God. But, If One Come unto my Generation from the Dead, surely they will then Repent!