N00654:13
The thoughts of a dying man. A faithful report of matters uttered by many,…
The thoughts of a dying man. A faithful report of matters uttered by many, in the last minutes of their lives. : And, a solemn warning unto all, to conform their lives, unto the belief of such unquestionable matters. : [Five lines of quotation]
printed by B. Green & J. Allen for J. Wheeler. At his shop, 1697
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
What greater Service can I now do, for you, My Neighbours, than to set before you, the Resentments of Things, which I am fully sure, will come upon you, in the Minutes of your Departure ••om this Bewitching World? And […], I can pretend, the more sensible, to set before you those Resentments, because I have, not only by the State of my own Health, been placed many a time on the Brink of Eternity, but also, I have hundreds, it may be, thousands of Times had my sad opportunities, to Behold the […] of others, that have been passing through' the Dark Valley of the Shadow of Death. Wherefore, ⟨p. 5⟩I have nothing to do, in the Hour that I have now to spend among you, but only to make you a Faithful and an Awful Report, of what I have been daily observing in my Dying Friends, to whose Assistances I have been continually called for now Seven more than Ten years together: Experience enough sure, to afford such Assertions, and such Assurances, as I am now, from Thence, to address you withal. But a Text of Scripture, must […] the Admonitions, which are to be […] out of this […]
What greater Service can I now do, for you, My Neighbours, than to set before you, the Resentments of Things, which I am fully sure, will come upon you, in the Minutes of your Departur• ••om this Bewitching World? And 〈…〉, I can pretend, the more sensible, to set before you those Resentments, because I have, not only by the State of my own Health, been placed many a time on the Brink of Eternity, but also, I have hundreds, it may be, thousands of Times had my sad opportunities, to Behold the 〈…〉 of others, that have been passing thro' the Dark Valley of the Shadow of Death. Wherefore, ⟨p. 5⟩I have nothing to do, in the Hour that I have now to spend among you, but only to make you a Faithful and an Awful Report, of what I have been daily observing in my Dying Friends, to whose Assistences I have been continually called for now Seven more than Ten years together: Experience enough sure, to afford such Assertions, and such As•urances, as I am now, from Thence, to address you withal. But a Text of Scripture, must the Admonitions, which are to be out of this