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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.
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.
TIS the Voice of our Glorious Commander uttered from Heaven unto us. Every Follower of the Lord JESUS CHRIST upon Earth is concerned in the Voice. 'Tis Extensive like the Voice of the Last Trumpet; And it is pity but it should be as Powerful.
TIS the Voice of our Glorious Commander uttered from Heaven unto us. Every Follower of the Lord JESUS CHRIST upon Earth is concerned in the Voice. 'Tis Extensive like the Voice of the Last Trumpet; And it is pitty but it should be as Powerful.
A Church at SMYRNA was one of the Seven, to which our Enthroned Lord, most graciously ⟨p. 2⟩directed Seven Epistles. They that look for a Prophetical Interpretation of the Seven Epistles, as answering to Seven Periods in the Line of Time from our Lords Ascent unto His Advent, may help themselves through' their Hard Task as well as they can. The Historical Interpretation suffices the more Judicious Interpreters. Our Lord, going to bid His Beloved John write the Things which were to be hereafter, bids him first of all to write the Things which then were. Our Lord would, [And how agreeable the method!] first Instruct and Reprove and Reform His People; and then communicate unto them His Divine and Secret Purposes. The Apostle, that had been a Preacher to the Churches in the Lydian Asia, now does the part of a Writer to them.
A Church at SMYRNA was one of the Seven, to which our Enthroned Lord, most graciously ⟨p. 2⟩directed Seven Epistles. They that look for a Prophetical Interpretation of the Seven Epistles, as answering to Seven Periods in the Line of Time from our Lords Ascent unto His Advent, may help themselves thro' their Hard Task as well as they can. The Historical Interpretation suffices the more Judicious Interpreters. Our Lord, going to bid His Beloved John write the Things which were to be hereafter, bids him first of all to write the Things which then were. Our Lord would, [And how agreeable the method!] first Instruct and Reprove and Reform His People; and then communicate unto them His Divine and Secret Purposes. The Apostle, that had been a Preacher to the Churches in the Lydian Asia, now does the part of a Writer to them.