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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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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.
A SOUL at EASE.
BOSTON-Lecture, 1 d. 8 m. 1713.
Psal. XXV. 13, His Soul shall dwell at Ease; and his Seed shall inherit the Earth.
THE Text I now Read, had not been Read unto you, if the Providence of God had not furnished me with an Extraordinary Commentary upon it. Yesterday there took her Flight from us, an Excellent Handmaid of the Lord, in whose Dispositions and Circumstances, my Text had a most Emphatical, and Observable Commentary. And I shall do but what is required in the Fifth Commandment, if I take this Opportunity of doing ⟨p. 4⟩a Justice to the Memory of a Just One, whom we all agree to Honour as a Mother Israel: And for whom we are this Day, Bowed down heavily, as One that Mourneth for his Mother. A Person, who was One of the First-born, if not the very First of her Sex that was Born, in this famous Metropolis of the English-America: And who deserves to be Honourably Mentioned, as long as BOSTON shall endure, which, I hope, will be unto the second Coming of our Saviour. May it be an happy Omen, that Many Daughters of this our New-English Jerusalem will do Virtuously, when we see the First of them, like another Mam, (her Names-sake) leading them in the Praises of God.