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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.
The Providence of God was in several things Remarkable towards him, e. g. In his being favoured with a Learned Education, after his Father had designed otherwise concerning him, (as it also was with Mr. Wigglesworth's Tutor, our famous Mitchel, who proved a great blessing to all the Churches in New-England:) And in his being restored to such a measure of Health, as to be able to Preach for many years twice every Lords-Day, after he had been for a long time in a Languishing condition. And although in some of the Reformed Churches, they do not permit a Minister of the Gospel to practise as a Physician, left he should thereby be too much diverted from his Sacred Employments, one of these Callings being ordinarily as much as one man can duly attend; nevertheless the Lord enabled him to manage both with good Success: So that in being bereaved of him you have lost an able Physician both for Soul ⟨image ?⟩and Body. Nor are the People in Maldon the only Persons who have sustained a loss by his Death.
The Providence of God was in several things Remarkable towards him, e. g. In his being favoured with a Learned Education, after his Father had designed otherwise concerning him, (as it also was with Mr. Wigglesworth's Tutor, our famous Mitchel, who proved a great blessing to all the Churches in New-England:) And in his being restored to such a measure of Health, as to be able to Preach for many years twice every Lords-Day, after he had been for a long time in a Languishing condition. And although in some of the Reformed Churches, they do not permit a Minister of the Gospel to practise as a Physician, left he should thereby be too much diverted from his Sacred Employments, one of these Callings being ordinarily as much as one man can duely attend; nevertheless the Lord enabled him to manage both with good Success: So that in being bereaved of him you have lost an able Physitian both for Soul ⟨image ?⟩and Body. Nor are the People in Maldon the only Persons who have sustained a loss by his Death.