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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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XXIV. Methinks, These Sabbaths are blessed Seasons, wherein poor wandering Harlots, may return to their Husband again. Oh! the boundless and inexhaustible Fountain of Mercy, that is with God and Christ, to Entertain again such as I am! Behold, I come unto thee; Thou art the Lord my God! Tho' vain Thoughts, and Pride, are rife and prevail in me, & what I would do, Lord, I cannot, yet I bless thee, that I have Time and Heart, to mourn for what I do amiss.
XXIV. Methinks, These Sabbaths are blessed Seasons, wherein poor wandring Harlots, may return to their Husband again. Oh! the boundless and inexhaustible Fountain of Mercy, that is with God and Christ, to Entertain again such as I am! Behold, I come unto thee; Thou art the Lord my God! Tho' vain Thoughts, and Pride, are rife and prevail in me, & what I would do, Lord, I cannot, yet I bless thee, that I have Time and Heart, to mourn for what I do amiss.
XXV. I find, that the clearest Arguments that can be, cannot persuade my Heart to believe the Being of a GOD, if God do not let the Beams of His Glory shine into it.
XXV. I find, that the clearest Arguments that can be, cannot perswade my Heart to believe the Being of a GOD, if God do not let the Beams of His Glory shine into it.
XXVI. I have sometimes thought, that in one Quarter of an Hours Sense of Gods Favour (tho' in a Weak measure,) I found more Joy and Inward Pleasure than Ever I found in my Twenty years course, by any Worldly Contentments.