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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.
That he might improve in universal Knowledge, and Enrich his mind with the Labours of a Diligent Hand, he had his Quotidiana; or Blank Books, wherein he entered the more notable things that occurred unto him in his Reading: and still numbering of the Notata, he formed an Index of them, that he might readily turn unto them In such imitable ways, he held on, preparing for the Death; which has now bereaved us of him.
That he might improve in universal Knowledge, and Enrich his mind with the Labours of a Diligent Hand, he had his Quotidiana; or Blank Books, wherein he entered the more notable things that occur'd unto him in his Reading: and still numbring of the Notata, he formed an Index of them, that he might readily turn unto them In such imitable wayes, he held on, preparing for the Death; which has now bereaved us of him.
The Hand which Baptised him, having born this […] for him commends the Example of this Piety to the Survivors; and has no more to add, […], Go thou, and no like-wise.
The Hand which Baptised him, having born this 〈…〉 for him commends the Example of this Piety to the Survivers; and has no more to add, 〈…〉, Go thou, and no like-wise.
To procure a due Regard unto One Paragraph of the foregoing Relation I will transcribe a short Passage from the Life of Mr. Thomas Board, and […] comparable Young Man, who was designed for the evangelical Ministry under the Academical Education of Mr. Joseph Peter, but was taken off by Death at the Age of Seventeen This Excellent Youth, writing the Story of his own Conversion to Serious & Vital Piety has the Ensuing Passages.