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A faithful man, described and rewarded. Some observable & serviceable passages in the life…
A faithful man, described and rewarded. Some observable & serviceable passages in the life and death of Mr. Michael Wigglesworth. Late Pastor of Maldon [i.e., Malden]; who rested from his labours, on the Lords-Day, June 10th. 1705. In the seventy fourth year of his age. : And memorials of piety, left behind him among his written experiences. : With a funeral-sermon preached (for him) at Maldon; June 24. 1705. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benj. Eliot, 1705
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XIX. I was afraid, lest my Soul never rested in Christ, and found satisfaction in Christ alone. The Lord helped me over these Fears; In that, I daily war and wrestle against an Heart that is Resting any where but in Christ. And my wanderings make for my further Establishment, and closer cleaving to Christ: God sends vexation in the Creature, and makes me seek and find more abundant sweetness in Him. So I concluded, Christ was mine; & all Spiritual Blessings in Him.
XIX. I was afraid, lest my Soul never rested in Christ, and found satisfaction in Christ alone. The Lord helped me over these Fears; In that, I daily war and wrestle against an Heart that is Resting any where but in Christ. And my wandrings make for my further Establishment, and closer cleaving to Christ: God sends vexation in the Creature, and makes me seek and find more abundant sweetness in Him. So I concluded, Christ was mine; & all Spiritual Blessings in Him.
XX. The Lord affects my Heart with some shame, that I should so Dishonour my Fathers House, as to feed upon Husks, when He has Bread Enough for me: That I should promise my self any Paradise under the Sun, when as I have experimentally found all to be vanity and vexation of Spirit; That I should mind or desire the love of the Creature, more than take contentment in the love of Christ, who loveth me better than any Creature can do, and who is more able to do for me, what I stand in need of, than any, yea, than all besides.
XXI. My God, and His Service, is all that I have to Delight my self in, in this World.