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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.
III. In that very Day, when our Lives come to an End, our Thoughts also come to an End. Our Death strikes at our Thoughts; and lays an Arrest upon them, in such Terms as those; Ezek. VII 6. An End is come, the End is come; it watcheth for you; behold it is come!
The Thing to be now Enquired is; What Thoughts, will Perish, and come to an End, when we Return Breathless to the Earth, and our Breath and Life comes to an End?
Not, All Thoughts. Our Minds won't Leave off all Thinking, when we Leave off Breathing and Living here. The Opinion of the Soul-s••epers is an Idle Dream. If the Soul can't be Killed by the Death of the Body, then it will hold on Thinking, after the Body is Dead. But of the Things which Kill the Body, our Saviour has assured us; Matth. X 28. They are not able to Kill the Soul.
Not, All Thoughts. Our Minds won't Leave off all Thinking, when we Leave off Breathing and Living here. The Opinion of the Soul-s••epers is an Idle Dream. If the Soul can't be Kill'd by the Death of the Body, then it will hold on Thinking, after the Body is Dead. But of the Things which Kill the Body, our Saviour has assured us; Matth. X 28. They are not able to Kill the Soul.