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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.
Letter: TO THE Church and Congregation AT MALDON in New-England.
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.
TO THE Church and Congregation AT MALDON in New-England.
THERE is often found a truth in that which has been by many observed, viz. That the Names of those who lived much in Heaven whilst they were on Earth, Live on Earth after they are in Heaven. We see an Instance of it in your Faithful Teacher, Mr. Wigglesworth, who now, is not, for God has taken him. As it was said of righteous Abel, being dead he yet speaketh; so dos your deceased Pastor Speak to you, as by his Divine Poems, which are (I suppose) in many of your Houses, so by the SERMONS which he Preached to you, which will doubtless Live in some of your Hearts as long as you your selves shall Live: and by that ⟨image ?⟩Holy Example which he set before you. For as the Apostle said to his Thessalonians, You are Witnesses how holily, and justly, and unblameably he behaved himself among you: And in the Memorials of his Piety here put into your hands, his Example will still be Living among you.
THERE is often found a truth in that which has been by many observed, viz. That the Names of those who lived much in Heaven whilest they were on Earth, Live on Earth after they are in Heaven. We see an Instance of it in your Faithful Teacher, Mr. Wigglesworth, who now, is not, for God has taken him. As it was said of righteous Abel, being dead he yet speaketh; so dos your deceased Pastor Speak to you, as by his Divine Poems, which are (I suppose) in many of your Houses, so by the SERMONS which he Preached to you, which will doubtless Live in some of your Hearts as long as you your selves shall Live: and by that ⟨image ?⟩Holy Example which he set before you. For as the Apostle said to his Thessalonians, You are Witnesses how holily, and justly, and unblameably he behaved himself among you: And in the Memorials of his Piety here put into your hands, his Example will still be Living among you.