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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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¶ But it is time for me, in my Historical way, which one would think should be a very Significant way, to Clinch the Nails which I have hitherto been driving. And I may upon a due Reflection, make this Report unto you, That the Religious Matron who yesterday withdrew from us, was One, in whom the ⟨p. 40⟩Truths which have now been delivered, concerning a Soul Dwelling and preserved in Ease by a Piety, and an Offspring rendered, and by themselves and others esteemed, Happy, in Pious Parents, have been in a very Conspicuous Degree exemplified. Such a Good Report she has of all, and of the Truth it self. I also must make a Record of it, and my Record shall be true.
¶ But it is time for me, in my Historical way, which one would think should be a very Significant way, to Clinch the Nails which I have hitherto been driving. And I may upon a due Reflection, make this Report unto you, That the Religious Matron who yesterday withdrew from us, was One, in whom the ⟨p. 40⟩Truths which have now been delivered, concerning a Soul Dwelling and preserved in Ease by a Piety, and an Offspring rendred, and by themselves and others esteem'd, Happy, in Pious Parents, have been in a very Conspicuous Degree exemplified. Such a Good Report she has of all, and of the Truth it self. I also must make a Record of it, and my Record shall be true.
We are not Bribed by the Riches of them who Dye and are buried, for to bear any flattering and fulsome Testimonies for them. Nothing without a Shining Piety in our Friends, can obtain our Testimonies: Tho' sometimes Public Stations, or such things as place Persons in the Light of more Public Observation, may invite us to Enlarge upon them. Philip de Comines complaines of it, That when he expostulated with a Carthusian, for putting the Term of a Saint on one that had been a Person of a very evil Character, his Monk replied upon him, Sir, We always make a Saint of a Benefactor. I hope, that you will find Us clear of that Scandal; and that you have often found us most Expatiate in Commending