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The best way of living; which is to die daily: very briefly described and…
The best way of living; which is to die daily: very briefly described and commended in a plain discourse, made at a time, when the author had newly seen repeated strokes of death, on his own family. And the publisher had his family also struck with a sudden death upon a vital part of it. : 22. d. IX. m. 1713. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [One line from 2 Corinthians]
Boston: printed by J. Allen, 1713
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Our Apostle speaks it, because he was Daily Exposed to Death, and Daily Expecting of it. His Dying Daily, was his being Daily willing to Die, and his Daily Laying himself open in the Cause of Christ, unto the utmost Hazards of Death. God Enkindled and Preserved this Piety in him, and his Fellow-Soldiers, with the persuasion of a Resurrection from the Dead. A persuasion productive of so much Piety; and having a Tendency to such an Holy Life, and such a Triumph over the Fear of Death, is doubtless of GOD. Such a persuasion doubtless is no Delusion. We may therefore go on persuaded of a Resurrection from the Dead; We shall not be Deceived in it. Our Apostle is proving the Resurrection with it. Q. E. D. This is what our Apostle upon the Demonstration of.
Our Apostle speaks it, because he was Daily Exposed to Death, and Daily Expecting of it. His Dying Daily, was his being Daily willing to Dy, and his Daily Laying himself open in the Cause of Christ, unto the utmost Hazards of Death. God Enkindled and Preserved this Piety in him, and his Fellow-Souldiers, with the perswasion of a Resurrection from the Dead. A perswasion productive of so much Piety; and having a Tendency to such an Holy Life, and such a Triumph over the Fear of Death, is doubtless of GOD. Such a perswasion doubtless is no Delusion. We may therefore go on perswaded of a Resurrection from the Dead; We shall not be Deceived in it. Our Apostle is proving the Resurrection with it. Q. E. D. This is what our Apostle upon the Demonstration of.
The Doctrine, which I will present you withal, shall be this; There is a Dying Daily, which true Christians Live in the practice of.
Dying Daily, will be, as the Condition of every Christian, so, the Exercise of every Lively Christian. Dying Daily is a Mystery of Practical Christianity, which we ought all to Live in the Study of.