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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.
A Short Memorial OF Mr. Recompense Wadsworth.A Short Memorial OF Mr. Recompence Wadsworth.
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 he is doubtless now gone, where this Holy Desire (which Austin well says, is the Life of a Christian,) is most fully, and in a most glorious manner answered; as our Gracious God uses to fulfil the Desire of them that fear Him.
And he is doubtless now gone, where this Holy Desire (which Austin well sayes, is the Life of a Christian,) is most fully, and in a most glorious manner answered; as our Gracious God uses to fulfil the Desire of them that fear Him.
Tho' this Comprehensive Instrument, be that which I have chosen to Exhibit as the First Article of the Things which I extract from his more Private Memoirs, yet I find some other Passages in them, which I am willing to have Remembered.
Tho' this Comprehensive Instrument, be that which I have chosen to Exhibit as the First Article of the Things which I extract from his more Private Memoirs, yet I find some other Passages in them, which I am willing to have Remembred.
In the Year, 1704 I find this Memorial en[…] by him in his private Papers;
In the Year, 1704 I find this Memorial en〈…〉 by him in his private Papers;