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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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Appendix: An Appendix. Containing a few MEMORIALS of PIETY; Faithfully Extracted from the Reserve…
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.
An Appendix. Containing a few MEMORIALS of PIETY; Faithfully Extracted from the Reserved Papers of Mr. Michael Wigglesworth.
THE Survivors have often received incomparable Benefits, from the Reserved Papers of Good Men; which they have Written only for the Help of their own Memories and Affections, & without the least Imagination, that they would ever get from under that Character of Reserved Papers.
THE Survivers have often received incomparable Benefits, from the Reserved Papers of Good Men; which they have Written only for the Help of their own Memories and Affections, & without the least Imagination, that they would ever get from under that Character of Reserved Papers.
Tis now found, that such had our Wigglesworth. Indeed they generally contain his humble, but severe, Animadversions upon himself, and such as argue a great Flight of Holiness in him from his Youth; and they contain many other Personal Matters, in which the Public is no way concerned. Nevertheless, in perusing such of them, as fell into my Hands, I thought I should Hide a Talent, if I did not Extract from thence, a few Passages, which may have a Special Tendency to serve the Designs of Piety abroad in the World. They are such as these.
Tis now found, that such had our Wigglesworth. Indeed they generally contain his humble, but severe, Animadversions upon himself, and such as argue a great Flight of Holiness in him from his Youth; and they contain many other Personal Matters, in which the Publick is no way concerned. Nevertheless, in perusing such of them, as fell into my Hands, I thought I should Hide a Talent, if I did not Extract from thence, a few Passages, which may have a Special Tendency to serve the Designs of Piety abroad in the World. They are such as these.