N00683:130
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.
To this his Preaching, when he saw God gave any Success, he would still, in his private papers, take as Thankful a Notice, as if great Riches had been heaped in upon him. And yet he would add, [such passages I sometimes find.]
Let my Soul Rejoice. But, Lord, keep me from Pride. I desire to be Humbled for it. Do I not know, that God makes use, of whom He pleases, and usually of the Weakest! No Flesh shall Glory!
Let my Soul Rejoyce. But, Lord, keep me from Pride. I desire to be Humbled for it. Do I not know, that God makes use, of whom He pleases, and usually of the Weakest! No Flesh shall Glory!
But if the Word Preached, by this Lively Dispenser of it, Live not in our Lives, after he is Dead, he will himself be, which, he often told you, he feared he should be, in the Day of God; a Witness against many of you.
But if the Word Preached, by this Lively Disp•nser of it, Live not in our Lives, after he is Dead, he will himself be, which, he often told you, he fear'd he should be, in the Day of God; a Witness against many of you.