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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.
First, Who it was that first gave the Name of CHRISTIANS, to the Disciples of our Lord? Of that I say, It is not probable, That this Name was imposed upon the Disciples, in a way of Derision, by their Persecutors: Their Persecutors would rather have contrived a more Derisory or ⟨p. 62⟩Defamatory Name for them, and have called •em, as one says, Crucifixians, or some like Term of Contempt. It is much more probable, That the Disciples Assumed this Name to themselves, by their own Election The Greek word, CHREMATISAI, here used, for Called, signifies, a Calling, with some very solemn and signal, and singular Circumstances. Yea, 'tis related by Johannes Antioche••s, that Evodus, the Minister of the Church at Antioch, at a Church Meeting agreed with them, to take this Name upon them. It should seem, that there was a special Direction, from the Holy Spirit of Christ, unto them, for their doing of it.
First, Who it was that first gave the Name of CHRISTIANS, to the Disciples of our Lord? Of that I say, It is not probable, That this Name was imposed upon the Disciples, in a way of Derision, by their Persecutors: Their Persecutors would rather have contrived a more Derisory or ⟨p. 62⟩De•amatory Name for them, and have call'd •em, as one saies, Crucifixians, or some like Term of Contempt. It is much more probable, That the Disciples Assumed this Name to themselves, by their own Election The Greek word, CHREMATISAI, here used, for Called, signifies, a Calling, with some very solemn and signal, and singular Circumstances. Yea, 'tis related by Johannes Antioche••s, that Evodus, the Minister of the Church at Antioch, at a Church Meeting agreed with them, to take this Name upon them. It should seem, that there was a special Direction, from the Holy Spirit of Christ, unto them, for their doing of it.