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A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend…
A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend Mr. John Baily [i.e., Bailey], comprised and expressed in a sermon, on the day of his funeral. Thursday. 16.d. 10.m. 1697. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two line epigram in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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.
Upon the saying whereof he Closed his own Eyes, about the Time when he still opened his Bible for his Public Labours: On the Lords Day, about Three in the Afternoon; and he never opened them any more.
Upon the saying whereof he Closed his own Eyes, about the Time when he still opened his Bible for his Publick Labours: On the Lords Day, about Three in the Afternoon; and he never opened them any more.
This was he, whom you are now going to Bury; but I pray you, Bury not with him, all the Holy Counsels, and Warnings, that we have heard from him; Remember how you have Received and Heard.
This was he, whom you are now going to Bury; but I pray you, Bury not with him, all the Holy Counsils, and Warnings, that we have heard from him; Remember how you have Received and Heard.
He was one, who took much Notice of what was from the Oracles of God, Spoken to him, in the Sermons of other men. He ha's much replenished his Diaries, with Remarks of this Importance; I heard a good Word to Day! And he would often decline going to Feasts, whereto his ⟨p. 55⟩Friends invited him, that he might go to Private Meetings in some other parts of the Town, where he might at the same Time Feast on the word of God. Thus, more particularly.