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Memorials of early piety. Occurring in the holy life & joyful death of Mrs.…
Memorials of early piety. Occurring in the holy life & joyful death of Mrs. Jerusha Oliver. : With some account of her Christian experiences, extracted from her reserved papers: and published, for the service of Christianity; but especially to serve the intentions of early religion. : [Four lines of Scripture texts]
printed by T. Green, 1711
Title page typeset from the transcription.
MEMOIRS OF Mrs. Jerusha Oliver, Who Died, 30. d. 10. m. 1710.
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.
And I have sometimes omitted to ask a Blessing of God, when I have been going to Eat; and to give Thanks, when I had done Eating. And I have Performed this Duty slightly. And I have been Guilty of one Sin, which is greater than all these; That is, Unbelief. And besides all this, there is that Sin of Sins, my Original Sin; My Nature is Sinful. Thus wrote Jerusha, while her Infancy was hardly yet Expired. These were the worst Things that she could Charge upon her self, when she was then making her Essays ⟨p. 6⟩towards the well-grown Devotions, of no less than Whole Days, of Retirement, for the Humiliations of a Repenting Soul. O more Aged Professors of Religion; To what a Tenderness in your walk with God, will you be Awakened; when you see a Child, Reflecting with all the Bitterness of Repentance, on miscarriages which few, few among the Children of men, have any Trouble for, take any Notice of!
And I have sometimes omitted to ask a Blessing of God, when I have been going to Eat; and to give Thanks, when I had done Eating. And I have Performed this Duty sleightily. And I have been Guilty of one Sin, which is greater than all these; That is, Unbelief. And besides all this, there is that Sin of Sins, my Original Sin; My Nature is Sinful. Thus wrote Jerusha, while her Infancy was hardly yet Expired. These were the worst Things that she could Charge upon her self, when she was then making her Essays ⟨p. 6⟩towards the well-grown Devotions, of no less than Whole Days, of Retirement, for the Humiliations of a Repenting Soul. O more Aged Professors of Religion; To what a Tenderness in your walk with God, will you be Awakened; when you see a Child, Reflecting with all the Bitterness of Repentance, on miscarriages which few, few among the Children of men, have any Trouble for, take any Notice of!
§ 3. When she was Twelve Years old, the Resolutions of Piety in her were arrived unto such a Fixation and Establishment, that she came to a very Solemn Transaction with the Glorious GOD. She Entered into His COVENANT; and she did with all possible Solemnity set her Hand unto an Instrument for that purpose, which appears to have been very much her own Drawing up: tho' she had a well-known Copy of another before her. Here it is.