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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.
Sirs, Thus are you to Commit your Spirits into the Hands of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Syrs, Thus are you to Commit your Spirits into the Hands of the Lord Jesus Christ.
My Reverend BAILY did so; and it is as from Him, that I do this Day, be speak your doing like him; yea, Not from Him only, but from the Lord Jesus Christ, the God▪ whose he was, and whom he Served. If you would more particularly be told, after what manner, he did Commit his own Spirit into the Hands of the Lord, I can faithfully Recite you his own Account of the Transaction. He gives it, thus;
I spent half the Day alone in seeking of ⟨p. 33⟩God; Desiring to give up my self unto God in Christ wholly, and to be His in Soul and Body. The particulars I omit. I hope, God in Christ, will Accept of me, and enable me by His Spirit to keep Touch with Him: for I owned my self wholly Unworthy to Enter into Covenant, and also Unable to keep it; but Jesus Christ is both Worthy and Able.