N02458:52
Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences…
Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences from it, and the great advantages of it. : Upon a special and mournful occasion. : [Seven lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Gerrish, 1727
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.
YEA, Consider me as now coming to you with a Message from the Dead, and a Message directed more peculiarly and pathetically to the YOUNG PEOPLE among us; and a Message which brings with it a Demand of EARLY PIETY, and their Immediate Conversion to GOD, and Espousal to their SAVIOUR.
AN Early Death, and a very Sudden One too, should never occur, without our Apprehending a Voice of the Glorious GOD unto the Survivors in it. Yea, The Voice of the Lord Cries to the City, and very particularly to the YOUNG PEOPLE of the City; The Children of Wisdom will hearken unto it, and with awakened Souls Lift up their Cries to Heaven upon it; Oh! That before I am cut down, I may bring forth some Fruit unto GOD!
AN Early Death, and a very Sudden One too, should never occur, without our Apprehending a Voice of the Glorious GOD unto the Survivers in it. Yea, The Voice of the Lord Cries to the City, and very particularly to the YOUNG PEOPLE of the City; The Children of Wisdom will hearken unto it, and with awakened Souls Lift up their Cries to Heaven upon it; Oh! That before I am cut down, I may bring forth some Fruit unto GOD!
THE famous Waldo, whose Name has been so considerable among the Waldensian Witnesses of our Lord, was brought home to GOD, and made a Prayerful, Watchful, Fruitful Walker with GOD all the rest of his Days, upon his beholding a Young Friend of his fall down Suddenly Dead before him. And what? Shall never any more, come to Think on their Ways, and make haste into a Walk with GOD, upon such an awakening Spectacle!