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Nepenthes evangelicum. A brief essay, upon a soul at ease; in what piety will…
Nepenthes evangelicum. A brief essay, upon a soul at ease; in what piety will bring both parents and children to. : A sermon occasioned by the death of a religious matron, Mrs. Mary Rock. Who having entered the eighty first year of her age, withdrew from us. 30d. 7m. 1713. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [One line from Matthew]Nepenthes evangelicum. A brief essay, upon a soul at ease; in what piety will bring both parents and children to. : A sermon occasion'd by the death of a religious matron, Mrs. Mary Rock. Who having entred the eighty first year of her age, withdrew from us. 30d. 7m. 1713. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [One line from Matthew]
Boston: printed by Thomas Fleet for Daniel Henchman, 1713
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IV. Holiness brings Ease to the Soul, by Healing the Distempers of the Soul. The Fruit of Piety is an Healed Soul; therefore an Easy one. An Holy Soul, is an Healed Soul. The Fear of God is Health to the Soul, and Marrow to the Mind; It makes an Healthy Soul. The Passions of the Soul, are the Things which will not let it be Easy; Things which break the Rest of it. Hence 'tis that we Read; Isa. LVII. 20, 21. The Wicked are like the troubled Sea, which cannot Rest; There is no Peace, saith my God unto the Wicked. Piety Cures our Passions; Moderates them; Regulates them. In Piety the Soul is brought into Order; The Disorders of the Soul are mightily Rectified. This makes an Easy Soul. A Lust in the Soul, is a Thorn in the Soul. The Soul cannot be at Ease, while a Lust is Inflaming and ⟨p. 16⟩Enraging of it. Piety pulls out the Thorn. Our Holy Saviour does in the Piety which He Works in us, Redeem us from all Iniquity. Piety will teach the Soul to Love nothing in this World Inordinately, and makes us willing to deny our selves of every thing that God would have us go without. Piety will teach the Soul to lay aside all Inordinate Care; It will help us to cast all our Care upon God, and put our Trust in Him for the Issue of all. Oh! the Ease of the Soul, that can do such things! Content makes an Easy Soul; yea, it is an Easy Soul. A Soul Dwelling at Ease, is a Soul contented with the Condition which God has appointed for us. Piety brings us to Contentment. A Grand Lesson which Piety teaches the Soul, is that; Be content with such Things as you have. It brings the Soul to this Easy Frame; Lord, Not my Will, but thy will be done. We Read; 1. Tim. VI. 6. Piety with Contentment is great Gain. Piety will be with Contentment; and therefore it will bring us to great Ease.
V. Piety puts the Soul upon that Course, which Usually, yea, Naturally brings Ease to the Soul. The Fear of God ⟨p. 17⟩