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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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XXII. God sends me in some support. For, First; I have desired and delighted in (not Heaven, or any Created Excellencies, but) God Himself, who is my Hearts contentment. Secondly. I do not desire Holiness for Heaven, but for the Love I bear to God and Christ, and out of my Desire to please Him. And I should desire it, if ⟨p. 35⟩there were neither Hell nor Heaven, and I desire universal Holiness. And it is my very Happiness to do God some Service before I die. That's all I have to comfort me against my Sorrows. And that is one end, why I desire communion with God; that I may be like Him. Such a Christ pleases me best, as will make me Holy.
XXII. God sends me in some support. For, First; I have desired and delighted in (not Heaven, or any Created Excellencies, but) God Himself, who is my Hearts contentment. Secondly. I do not desire Holiness for Heaven, but for the Love I bear to God and Christ, and out of my Desire to please Him. And I should desire it, if ⟨p. 35⟩there were neither Hell nor Heaven, and I desire universal Holiness. And it is my very Happiness to do God some Service before I dy. That's all I have to comfort me against my Sorrows. And that is one end, why I desire communion with God; that I may be like Him. Such a Christ pleases me best, as will make me Holy.
XXIII. My Morning-Desires on the Sabbath were, That I might do nothing for my self, to set forth my self; but all for God; and that I might mind God, and not Man, in all the Duties thereof.