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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Appendix › Part 2: ¶ 2. [After he was invited unto Maldon, and then was taken off by Long Sickness.]
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.
VI. I Earnestly Desire▪ Deliverance from my Long continued & increasing Weakness. Because I am thereby detained from the Liberties of Gods House and Ordinances. And, because it is a sore Hindrance to my Personal Communion with God, and Holy Walking. I cannot take that pains with my carnal Heart, that its Necessities requires. I cannot make a fervent Prayer, but my Strength ⟨p. 43⟩faileth, before I have half unburdened my Heart, or spread my case before the Lord. I cannot think a few serious Thoughts, Except now and then a short Ejaculation, which does not so Effectually take off the Heart from things Below, & carry it into Heaven, as Set and Solemn Meditation was wont to do.
VI. I Earnestly Desire▪ Deliverance from my Long continued & increasing Weakness. Because I am thereby detained from the Liberties of Gods House and Ordinances. And, because it is a sore Hindrance to my Personal Communion with God, and Holy Walking. I cannot take that pains with my carnal Heart, that its Necessities requires. I cannot make a fervent Prayer, but my Strength ⟨p. 43⟩faileth, before I have half unburthened my Heart, or spread my case before the Lord. I cannot think a few serious Thoughts, Except now and then a short Ejaculation, which does not so Effectually take off the Heart from things Below, & carry it into Heaven, as Set and Solemn Maditation was wont to do.
VII. Ira premit, Peccata gravant, afflicto frangit; Omnia Sub caelo me quoque destituunt. Aeger, Inops, Orbus, curarum ponder fessus, Corpore Languescens, Deficiens Animo. Obruor adversis; Succedunt imbribus imbres, Meque Simul feriunt, Venturs et unda minax.
VII. Ira premit, Peccata gravant, afflicto frangit; Omnia Sub caelo me quoque destituunt. Aeger, Inops, Orbus, curarum pondere fessus, Corpore Languescens, Deficiens Animo. Obruor adversis; Succedunt imbribus imbres, Meque Simul feriunt, Venturs et unda minax.