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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.
APPENDIX. The Character of a Christian.
Act. XI.46. The Disciples were called CHRISTIANS.
Ecclesiastical History mentions this particular Disposition, in one of the Primitive Christians, and Confessors; That when the Sworn Enemies of Christianity, Examined him, What he was? he would still give them no other Answer, but this, I am a Christian: If they asked him, what Country-man he was, or, what Employment he had, or, who were his Friends, or, any other matter, his Answer to them still was no other than this, I am a Christian: Thus he still Answered, although he ran the hazard of his Life, by making such an Answer!
ECclesiastical History mentions this particular Disposition, in one of the Primitive Christians, and Confessors; That when the Sworn Enemies of Christianity, Examined him, What he was? he would still give them no other Answer, but this, I am a Christian: If they asked him, what Countrey-man he was, or, what Employment he had, or, who were his Friends, or, any other matter, his Answer to them still was no other than this, I am a Christian: Thus he still Answered, although he ran the hazard of his Life, by making such an Answer!