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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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A Faithful Man Described & Rewarded. A SERMON Preached at MALDON, o… › APPLICATION.
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He was descended of Eminently Religious Parents, who were great Sufferers for that which was then, The Cause of God, and of New-England. While he was yet a Youth, he was marvellously concerned, That he might have an Heart filled with the Spirit of God. This concernment upon his mind appeared especially in his Watchful Endeavours to have Spiritual Sins, chased out of his cleansed Heart. PRIDE, the Sin of Young men, yea, of all men; PRIDE, the Sin which few men Try or Trouble themselves about; this Devout Youth, was full of Holy and Watchful Trouble about it: And he then wrote a very Savoury Discourse, Entitled, Considerations against Pride. And another ⟨p. 23⟩Entitled, Considerations against Delighting more in the Creature than in God. This was to mortify in himself the Sins rarely minded by the most of men.
He was descended of Eminently Religious Parents, who were great Sufferers for that which was then, The Cause of God, and of New-England. While he was yet a Youth, he was marvellously concerned, That he might have an Heart filled with the Spirit of God. This concernment upon his mind appeared especially in his Watchful Endeavours to have Spiritual Sins, chased out of his cleansed Heart. PRIDE, the Sin of Young men, yea, of all men; PRIDE, the Sin which few men Try or Trouble themselves about; this Devout Youth, was full of Holy and Watchful Trouble about it: And he then wrote a very Savoury Discourse, Entituled, Considerations against Pride. And another ⟨p. 23⟩Entituled, Considerations against Delighting more in the Creature than in God. This was to mortify in himself the Sins rarely minded by the most of men.
Having had a Pious and a Learned Education, the first Public Station wherein I find him, was that of a Fellow, and a Tutor, in Harvard-College. With a rare Faithfulness did he adorn the Station! He used all the means imaginable, to make his Pupils not only good Scholars, but also good Christians; and instil into them those things, which might render them rich Blessings unto the Churches of God. Unto his Watchful and Painful Essays, to keep them close unto their Academical Exercises, he added, Serious Admonitions unto them about their Interior State, and (as I find in his Reserved Papers) he Employed his Prayers and Tears to God for them, & had such a flaming zeal, to make them worthy men, that, upon Reflection, he was afraid, Lest his cares for their Good, and his affection to them, should so drink up his very Spirit, as to steal away his Heart from God.