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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.
Again, The Blessed Jesus is the Prophet of the Christian; the Shepherd and Bishop of his Soul; the Faithful Witness of God unto him; and his perpetual Counsel•or. A Christian sees his Blessed Jesus, and saith with that Multitude, in Mat. 21.11. This is Jesus the Prophet. The Christian is one who apprehends the Lord Jesus Christ, as, A Teacher come from God; and, a Teacher, whose Acquaintance with the Counsels of God, infinitely exceeds all that any mortal man can pretend unto: Jesus, a Prophet, (says he) Mighty in Deed, and in Word before God! Hence, the Christian Embraces what the Lord Jesus Christ has Revealed, as being the True and the Whole Will of God; He will Credit nothing, with a Sacred Belief, and Perform nothing, as a Sacred Worship, except what comes from the Lord Jesus Christ: In every Difficulty, he will go to the Lord Jesus Christ for Direction: and he carries a Dark Soul to the Lord Jesus Christ, with this petition, Lord, that I may Receive, my Sight! The Scholars of an Aristotle are called, Aristoteleans. Thus a Christian, what is he but a Scholar of Christ?
Again, The Blessed Jesus is the Prophet of the Christian; the Shepherd and Bishop of his Soul; the Faithful Witness of God unto him; and his perpetual Counsel•or. A Christian sees his Blessed Jesus, and saith with that Multitude, in Mat. 21.11. This is Jesus the Prophet. The Christian is one who apprehends the Lord Jesus Christ, as, A Teacher come from God; and, a Teacher, whose Acquaintance with the Counsels of God, infinitely exceeds all that any mortal man can pretend unto: Jesus, a Prophet, (says he) Mighty in Deed, and in Word before God! Hence, the Christian Embraces what the Lord Jesus Christ has Revealed, as being the True and the Whole Will of God; He will Credit nothing, with a Sacred Belief, and Perform nothing, as a Sacred Worship, except what comes from the Lord Jesus Christ: In every Difficulty, he will go to the Lord Jesus Christ for Direction: and he carries a Dark Soul to the Lord Jesus Christ, with this petition, Lord, that I may Receive, my Sight! The Scholars of an Aristole are called, Aristoteleans. Thus a Christian, what is he but a Scholar of Christ?