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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
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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 ⟨p. iii⟩of his good Mothers Death. Those I shall not here take notice of, but some others which I find in her Reserved Manuscripts.
Decem. 17. 1688 She thus writes; I kept a Fast alone in the Study, to request of God that he would afford Assistance to my Dearest now in England; that he may do Service for God, and for His New-England Israel. And that he and Samuel, might be brought in Safety to us again: And for my dear Son Cotton, that God would abundantly Bless him in the Work of the Lord; and Increase his Family. And for all my Children; and that all of us might be brought nearer to God by the Death of dear Nathaniel; and that Sin may be Pardoned, which has been the cause of his Death. And I do humbly give Thanks to God this Day, for great Answers of Prayer since I kept a Fast in this Study last.
Decem. 17. 1688 She thus writes; I kept a Fast alone in the Study, to request of God that he would afford Assistance to my Dearest now in England; that he may do Service for God, and for His New-England Israel. And that he and Samuel, might be brought in Safety to us again: And for my dear Son Cotton, that God would abundantly Bless him in the Work of the Lord; and Increase his Family. And for all my Children; and that all of us might be bro't nearer to God by the Death of dear Nathaniel; and that Sin may be Pardoned, which has been the cause of his Death. And I do humbly give Thanks to God this Day, for great Answers of Prayer since I kept a Fast in this Study last.