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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.
Of That I say; 'Tis only the Second Person in the Trinity, which took our Nature upon Him. Our Name therefore is very fitly fetched from that Second Person. 'Tis only in CHRIST, and through' CHRIST, that God becomes our God; and it is by CHRIST, that He does whatever is done for us. How Agreeably, are we called, Christians, to acknowledge this? As for the Name of JESUS, it signifies, A Saviour; Now none of us vain men, have any claim to any share with our Lord, in His being so. Since, There is no other Name under Heaven, given among ⟨p. 63⟩men, whereby we must be Saved, it is not fit that this Name should be put upon any among men under Heaven. They who have called themselves JESUITS, in the Last Age, are a presumptuous as well as a pernicious Generation. But the Name of CHRIST, signifies, Anointed. Now to something of This privilege we also are Advanced: The Apostle says, We have Received an Anointing: And the Psalmist says, We are Fellows with our Lord in this, tho' He be Anointed above us all.
Of That I say; 'Tis only the Second Person in the Trinity, which took our Nature upon Him. Our Name therefore is very fitly fetch'd from that Second Person. 'Tis only in CHRIST, and thro' CHRIST, that God becomes our God; and it is by CHRIST, that He does whatever is done for us. How Agreeably, are we called, Christians, to acknowledge this? As for the Name of JESUS, it signifies, A Saviour; Now none of us vain men, have any claim to any share with our Lord, in His being so. Since, There is no other Name under Heaven, given among ⟨p. 63⟩men, whereby we must be Saved, it is not fit that this Name should be put upon any among men under Heaven. They who have call'd themselves JESUITES, in the Last Age, are a presumptuous as well as a pernicious Generation. But the Name of CHRIST, signifies, Anointed. Now to something of This priviledge we also are Advanced: The Apostle saies, We have Received an Anointing: And the Psalmist says, We are Fellows with our Lord in this, tho' He be Anointed above us all.