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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 pleased God, when the Distresses of the Church in Maldon, did extremely call for it, wondrously to Restore His Faithful Servant. He that had been for near Twenty years almost Buried Alive, comes abroad again; and for as many years more, must in a Public Usefulness, receive the Answer and Harvest of the Thousands of Supplications, with which the God of his Health, had been addressed by him & for him.
It pleased God, when the Distresses of the Church in Maldon, did extremely call for it, wondrously to Restore His Faithful Servant. He that had been for near Twenty years almost Buried Alive, comes abroad again; and for as many years more, must in a Publick Usefulness, receive the Answer and Harvest of the Thousands of Supplications, with which the God of his Health, had been addressed by him & for him.
How Faithfully did he now, Deliver the whole Counsel of God!
How Faithfully did he Rebuke Sin, both in his Ministry and in his Discipline!
How Faithful was he to the Work of God in the Churches of New-England, and Grieved at every thing that he thought had any Tendency to incommode that glorious Work?