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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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It was not long after his coming to Maldon, that a Sickly Constitution so prevailed upon him as to confine him, from his Public Work, for some whole Sevens of years. His Faithfulness continued, when his Ministry was thus interrupted. The Kindness of his Tender Flock unto him, was answered in his Kind concern to have them Served by other Hands. He took a Short Voyage unto ⟨p. 24⟩another Country, for the Recovery of his Health; which tho' he Recovered not, yet at his Return, I find him comforting himself, with inserting of this Passage, in his Reserved Papers.
It was not long after his coming to Maldon, that a Sickly Constitution so prevailed upon him as to confine him, from his Publick Work, for some whole Sevens of years. His Faithfulness continued, when his Ministry was thus interrupted. The Kindness of his Tender Flock unto him, was answered in his Kind concern to have them Served by other Hands. He took a Short Voyage unto ⟨p. 24⟩another Country, for the Recovery of his Health; which tho' he Recovered not, yet at his Return, I find him comforting himself, with inserting of this Passage, in his Reserved Papers.
Peradventure the Lord removed me for a Season, that He might set a better Watchman over this His Flock, and a more Painful Labourer in His Vineyard. This was one thing that I aimed at in Removing (to help the Peoples Modesty in the Case,) and I believe the Lord aimed at it, in removing me for a Season.
His Faithfulness now appeared, in his Edifying Discourses, to those that came anear him; A Thing wherein he was very Careful and Fruitful; much bewailing the want of a Profitable and Religious Conversation, in so many that Profess Religion. And that he might yet more Faithfully set himself to Do Good, when he could not Preach, he Wrote several Composures, wherein he proposed the Edification of such Readers, as are for Truth's dressed up in a Plain Meeter. These Composures have had their Acceptance and Advantage among that sort of Readers; & one of them, The Day of Doom, which has been often Reprinted in both Englands, may perhaps find our Children, till the Day it self arrive.