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A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing.…
A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasioned by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasion'd by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1714
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
To my CHILDREN.
My Dear Children;
YOU are now Motherless. And a Tender Mother (if there was such an one in the world) you have Lost. Be Humbled under the Hand of God, and be Thankful that you were not deprived of her sooner. You will very shortly be Fatherless as well as Motherless. And then you must think on that Scripture (on which one of you has a Sermon Printed) Psal. 27.10. When my Father and my Mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. Your Mother Lived Seventy Two Years, Four Months and Sixteen Days. Your Father is Two Years and Eight Months Older than your Mother; and therefore will soon go after her.
Your Dear Mother, did in many things, set an Example before you, worthy to be imitated. In special, She excelled ⟨p. ii⟩in Humility. Who did you ever know had less Pride in her than she had? You know that she took great pleasure in Reading the holy Scripture. In her latter Years, when her Children being grown up, she had more leisure, she has sometimes Read over the whole Bible, Twice in less than a Years time. She was Constant and Frequent in Prayer to God, delighting in Communion with Him. You know that I have ever since any of you can remember, loved to be in no place on the Earth, so much as in my Study. But now I shall love to be there more than ever; because I find in your Mothers Private Payers, that when I was absent from her Four Years in England, that so I might there do Service for the Churches in New-England, she spent many Whole Days (some Scores of them) alone with God there, with Fastings and Prayers for me, and for you all; as well as for the People of God. Some Particulars referring thereunto, are mentioned in the Sermon which one of you Preached on occasion