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Golgotha. A lively description of death. With such thoughts, as are to be entertained…
Golgotha. A lively description of death. With such thoughts, as are to be entertained by men, that they may not perish, in that very day, when the thoughts of men do perish. Occasioned by some fresh instances of early mortality. With a more particular memorial of one of them; namely, Mr. Recompense Wadsworth, a late school-master in Boston. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]Golgotha. A lively description of death. With such thoughts, as are to be entertained by men, that they may not perish, in that very day, when the thoughts of men do perish. Occasioned by some fresh instances of early mortality. With a more particular memorial of one of them; namely, Mr. Recompence Wadsworth, a late school-master in Boston. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]
printed by B Green for Daniel Henchman, 1713
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
I will take advantage, from the phrase of, Breath in the Nostrils, to press your Duty upon you. Tis the phrase, by which we have the Anger of the Great GOD set forth sometimes unto us. His Breath is in His Nostrils. Verily, If you do not lay out much of your Breathing Time, in ⟨p. 13⟩the Acknowledgements of GOD, you will find, His dreadful Anger, putting an End unto this Time, and punishing you, where the Breath of the Lord, like a Stream of Brimstone, does kindle a Fire, that burns unto Eternity.
I will take advantage, from the phrase of, Breath in the Nostrils, to press your Duty upon you. Tis the phrase, by which we have the Anger of the Great GOD set forth sometimes unto us. His Breath is in His Nostrils. Verily, If you do not lay out much of your Breathing Time, in ⟨p. 13⟩the Acknowledgments of GOD, you will find, His dreadful Anger, putting an End unto this Time, and punishing you, where the Breath of the Lord, like a Stream of Brimstone, does kindle a Fire, that burns unto Eternity.
II. When a Man Dies, then he Returns to his Earth. Dying, is a Returning to the Earth, yea, to a Mans Own Earth.
The Phrase of, Returning to the Earth, leads us back to the Original of Man. For The Lord God formed Man out of the Dust of the Ground. This is the Humiliation which we have to take notice of; Gen. III. 19. Th•u shalt Return to the Ground; for out of it, thou wast taken: For Dust thou art, and unto Dust shalt thou Return.