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A70554	Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ... changed earth for heaven, Oct. 17. 1688 whereto are added some discourses on the true nature, the great reward, and the best season of such a walk with God as he left a pattern of.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Samuel, 1651-1728.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1097A; ESTC R20873	63,808	161

them who cannot plead so O that every young Man would remember that saying in Prov. 1. 10. My Son if sinners entice thee consent thou not walk not thou in the way of them and remember that saying in Prov. 13. 20. He that walketh with the wise shall be wise but a Companion of fools shall be destroyed What shall I say more In fine Remember young Man that on thy Death-bed thou wilt gnash thy Teeth at the sight of such Companions thy groan will then be O gather not my soul with sinners and one of them in thy Chamber would then be thy Torment there Well then save your selves from this untoward Generation 2. Abandon the Sin of Sabbath-breaking that you may Remember your Creator It is the Command of God in Exod. 20. 8. Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy Men are like to Remember God himself if they remember this day of the Lord as they ought to do If you look through the World you shall see that Mens Religion is as their Sabbath is The Sabbath is the Engine by which by the Bible true Remembrance of God is kept alive It is the Description which the Lord gives of all good Men in Isa 56. 4. They that keep my Sabbaths and choose the things that please me Young Men this is the Day to which all other days may say Thou art worth Ten thousand of us Of this Day it shall evermore be said O thou Day that is highly favoured the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among the Dayes and cursed is he that despises thee Young Persons are apt on this day to be vain in their Thoughts and Words and Idle in their whole Behaviour But labour thou to spend this Day as a market-Market-day for thy Soul spend it in Holy Duties and in those things that may prove both a Cause and a Sign of thy Rest among the People of God for ever Do according to that in Isa 58. 13. Call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord and honourable Do not abuse this high Day of God as the Prophet said unto Gehazi Is this a Time to receive Money so let me say Is this a time to be making of Bargains or to be ordering of Journeys Much more Is this a time for Rioting and Drunkenness for Chambering and Wantonness or for such things as are never seasonable No 't is not such a Time To the young People that make it such a Time I would say as in Neh. 13. 18. You bring Wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath Such Persons are the meer Achans of the Land they live in Finally There are many other sins of Youth especially that sin of Vncleanness which we must avoid and forsake if we would Remember God Let no Young Man allow himself in those cursed things RULE III. Let us Remember the virtuous Example of them that have been good betimes especially the Holy Pattern of the Holy Jesus It is said in Heb. 13. 7. Remember them whose Faith is to be followed So it may be urged Remember them whose Youth is to be followed If we remember them we shall remember God. There have been young Persons that have had the Grace of Forty at the Age of Twenty in them Sometimes a young Man has given up himself to God by a Covenant never to be forgotten A young Man has maintain'd a course of daily supplication and besides often had his extraordinary Dayes of Prayer and Praise a young Man has upheld a course of daily Meditation and besides accustomed himself to read the Scripture with such Attention as to fetch a Note and a Wish out of every Verse before him such an one I have lately follow'd unto the Grave Many more such Instances of Early Piety perhaps a Young Man here and there may afford unto us O now Go thou and do likewise But above all the Lord Jesus Christ calls for our Imitation It is said of Him in Psal 110. 3. Thou hast the Dew of thy Youth In his Youth it self a Dew of Grace was to be seen upon him in his Youth he fulfilled the whole will of God in his Youth he was always about his Fathers business He now says to Young Men what he says to All Men in Joh. 13. 15. I have given you an Example that you should do as I have done O then study Christ Jesus observe Christ Jesus follow Christ Jesus ask What was the Behaviour of Christ Jesus in his Youth and Be as he was in the World. RULE IV. Let us remember the profitable Instruction of them that wish well unto us There is a twofold Instruction which young Persons among us are made partakers of There is Pastoral Instruction and there is Parental Instruction under which you sit Regard this Instruction lest you mourn at last and say How have I hated Instruction and not obeyed the voice of my Teachers You enjoy Pastoral Instrnction O despise it not You have with Sermon after Sermon been publickly and solemnly called upon to Remember God. Besides this I have personally treated with some scores of you about your Eternal Welfare and I hope I may live to visit every one of you for this end earnestly and urgently beseeching of you to be Reconciled unto God. It was of old enjoyned in Deut. 31. 12. Gather the People together Men and Women and Children that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord Behold the Children as well as the Adult have been advised here to Remember the Lord. What is now the effect of it I will for once wax bold with you and say as Dying Bolton said unto his Children Children let any of you meet me at the day of Judgment in a Christless unregenerate estate if you dare I will testifie against you I say again I will testifie against you before the Lord Jesus if you do You enjoy Paternal Instruction too O refuse it not Does not thy Father or thy Master or thy Mother charge thee to Remember God Did they never charge thee to read the Word and seek the Face of God and to make Conscience of thy Wayes Then My Son hear the Instruction of thy Father and forsake not the Law of thy Mother What befell the Sons of Eli those Sons of Belial in 1 Sam. 2. 25. They hearkened not to the Voice of their Father because the Lord would slay them Art thou a young Person counselled by a good Parent to Remember the Lord The Lord will slay thee yea The Lord will Damn thee if thou dost not Hearken thereunto Thus are we to Remember God And O who among you are more than almost perswaded hereunto Let a few Considerations more add weight unto those that have also bespoke it of you CONSIDER I. The God of Heaven has Commanded you to Remember him you have this Command in a shadow under the Law of old It was required in Exod. 22. 29. Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of the ripe fruits unto me The Lord

tryed so he found the benefit of it when he came into the Field Few in the World ever bore such Dolors with such a silent and a quiet and composed Temper as he Some that were intimate with him would say He was one of an Iron Patience and they had rarely if ever seen such a patient Patient But his Death he seem'd all along most careful to be ready for In his Papers Meditations on the four last things was a Title mentioning a Subject of his most solicitous Contemplations Above three Years before his Translation his Diary hath such a Note as this Speaking to Day something concerning my Commencement In the Margin he wrote Deceived I was strangely surprized and had many Thoughts yea Perswasions That I should not live He then Rest What may be the Import hereof I cannot tell yet I gather thus much That it is incumbent on me without further delay to make my Calling and Election sure He hath also left behind him some Meditations tending to the Exercise of Repentance and Faith and Preparation for Death as he hath himself intituled them but the Reader by this time will easily pardon my forbearing the Communication of them Indeed Preparation for Death in one word contains the substance of what he had been doing divers years before the King of Terrors took his Clay House away And as he was desirous to prepare for what Passive Obedience he might be put upon so he was loath to have his Heart not well ordered or furnished when active Obedience might be called for at his hands Tho he never liv'd to preach any other than some private Sermons yet he was not unthoughtful of the Time when publick ones might be expected from him It may not be unuseful for me to insert one of his Meditations here it runs in such terms as these ¶ Whether I should be a Minister I considered all Objections which Persons might make against it and answer'd them every one But one Objection startled me more than the rest to wit Personal Vnfitness from my Hebetude or want of Invention To which I answer'd with minding that Promise in Exod. 3. 12. Certainly I will be with thee And the beginning of ver 18. They shall hearken to thy voice And where God finds work there he will give strength I likewise considered 1 Chron. 28. 10 20. and Mat. 28. 19 20. and Josh 1. 9. and Judg. 6. 12 14. And then I thought with my self That as for living in a remote part of the Countrey I should be willing thereunto if so I might do Service for God and bring Glory to his Name And whilst I was musing on these things I was melted into a frame that I thought heretofore I should never be in namely humble Submission to the good Pleasure of God however he should dispose of me I knew that though I were Reproached for what meanness I should this way be exposed unto there is an Answer in Rom. 1. 16. and in Mark 8. 38. and in Psal 31. 19. and in Prov. 16. 7. and in Pfal 37. 5 6. So were the Apostles 1 Cor. 4. 3 9. If I serve Christ God will honour me Joh. 12. 26. Every one must own that however such things as these in an old Man may be below our Admiration yet in a young Man that out-lived not the Years which the Nodes of the Moon take to dispatch a Revolution they deserve a Memory among them that may be Edified by such Exemplary Pr●ctices Indeed he was himself Extreamly unsensible of the least worth or shine adorning of him and in his whole Deportment he discovered a modest an humble and a deserved mein which might be reck●ned to bear little proportion with his other Accomplishments were it not that the more gracious Men are the more humble they always are and they are the Fullest and Richest Ears of Corn which most hang down towards the Ground But while he in a sort wronged himself to escape the bane and blame of Pride it is a piece of pure Justice in the Survivers to Embalm the Name of a Person thus desirable since he is gone thither where he has no Chaff to take fire at the sparks of our Praises Sic oculos sic ille manus sic ora ferebat Such a young Man as this it is that the Church of God is now deprived of What a Blessing might his Living have proved unto the World But as the Long-liv'd Patriarchs before the Flood have still that Clause introduced of them And he lyed which Clause awakened and Converted a Person of Quality who came in occasionally while the Minister was reading the Fifth Chapter of Genesis to the Congregation so must I now say of the Short-liv'd Person whom we have been paying out last Respect unto He lived thus long in a little time And he died Before I break off I must relate III. His DEATH Too soon and too sad a thing for me to mention without Sighing Ah my Brother in my Lamentation over it He had contracted an universal Ill Habit of Body which was attended with a particular generation of Ill Humours where the Os Ileon and Os Sacrum joyn from whence it fell into his Thigh until there was a very large collection of it there There was an Incision with mature Advice made into the Tumour about a Month before his Expiration which gave good hopes of his Recovery into a capacity of serving the Church of God but the Circulation which was now given unto the putrid Juices which his Blood through his continual and sedentary Studies had been annoyed withal soon enkinded a Fever which burnt asunder the thread of this pious Life One might suppose that such a Walk with God as the Reader has newly had Pourtrayed before him should End in Raptures and Extasies of Assurance but I am to tell him That this young Person had them not And there wanted not Reason for it For his Natural Distemper disposed him to what is contrary to Joy but his Deep Humility had a greater share in the Jealousies and Suspicions which he would still cherish of himself He was indeed so afraid of being an Hypocrite that he would scarce allow himself to be called a Christian and he did not care so much as to tell any of his own Experiences no nor his Inclinations unless to one or two Divines who kindly refreshed him with their daily Visits and with them too he would uphold his Discourse only in Latin if any one else were by Never did I see more Caution against Hypocrisie than what was in him and a certain Self-abhorrence accompanying of it caused to proceed from him no Expressions but those of an Abased Soul. When his Brother having recited the Terms of the Gospel to him with a design to obtain from him a Renewal of his Explicit Consent thereunto asked him Whether he did not judge himself Sincere in that Consent He only replied I should think so if it were not for the

because of my foolishness But we shall not always be complaining so God will take us from all our Corruptions God will take us from all our Disorders God will take us from the reach of so much as one vain Thought for evermore I may speak after Moses in Deut. 12. 8. Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day though ye are not as yet come to the rest which the Lord your God giveth you When the Walls of this Clay Tabernacle are batter'd down all the Leprosie which now cleaves unto us will be done away We shall shortly take an eternal farewel of every Lust and say Be gone thou vile thing be gone I will never see thee more Indeed it was the cursed Womb of sin from vvhich Death at first came into the World. But O the Mystery of Divine Wisdom The Daughter destroys the Mother and by Death shall sin go out of the World again Secondly God will take the Believer from the state of a Mourner here There are many and mighty Temptations which now cause us to vex as Rebeckah did at her Annoyances in Gen. 27. 46. I am weary of my life Yea but vvhen thy life is expired they shall never weary thee any more God will take us from all seducing Temptations and remove all Evil Counsellors from our presence for ever The fiery Darts of the Devil shall not reach us and wound us as heretofore We shall not be put upon saying Get thee behind me Satan for Satan shall be far enough below us The time will come when we shall march as Conquerors thorough these Territories of the Prince of the Power of the Air and at the utmost Borders thereof we shall give such a triumphant Shout Adieu foul Fiend adieu The Son of David will never let me come into thy devouring Jaws again We shall go likewise from the Intanglements of the World. The things of this World we shall turn our backs upon as upon poor Trifles poor Nothings and miserable Comforters and vve shall say To the Fire I leave you all The Men of this World vve shall be no more flattered or terrified vvithal but laugh at all the Favour and all the Fury of those poor Worms and say as our Saviour to the Jews Whither I go you cannot come God will take us from all afflicting Temptations too As for our Spirits we shall not weep as we do now under our Doubts and our Fears nor any more say God counteth me for his Enemy As for our Bodies we shall drop them and all the Ails and all the Pains of them as Elijah did his Mantle of old As for our Names we shall be gone from the scourge of the Tongue there shall be no Shimei to curse us in the New-Jerusalem which we go unto No Losses no Crosses will then affect us nor Cain's Club of Persecution ever lay a blow upon us any more Thirdly God will take the Believer from the state of a Waiter here It is the Voice of all good Men in 2 Cor. 5. 2. We groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our house which is from Heaven Our last groans will put a period unto those groans God will take us from our Faith and from our Hope it shall be turned into Sight and Love and Joy World without end We shall e're long leave looking for the Rest which remaineth for the People of God Leave looking for that City whose Builder and Maker is God Leave looking the Crown of Life the Crown that fadeth not away We shall have what we have been looking for and we shall be taken from our humble prayerful careful Expectations of it We shall no more be panting after the Promise and saying O when will it come unto me All the sure Mercies of the Covenant will say unto us We are come we are come we are now thine for evermore PROP. II. They that Walk with God shall be taken by God unto a glorious Estate in Heaven too We shall be taken by God when we are taken by Death But unto what shall we be taken A New Sight will chiefly constitute the New State vvhich God will take us to In short we shall be taken to a Full Refreshing Transforming sight of God in Christ among the Righteous for ever I shall give but a touch at these things we do but stammer and stumble vvhen we attempt a Description of them Indeed I know not vvhether I had best offer at any Description of this glorious Estate or instead thereof only say as he said unto Nathanael once Go and see Yet however this little Cluster of Notions we may carry with us to the heavenly Countrey from vvhence they were brought unto us First God will take the Believer unto a state wherein he shall be immediately beholding of himself in Christ Jesus We shall come into the Presence of our Lord and behold our Joseph our Jesus in all his glory There shall then be fulfilled that part of our Lord's Intercession in Joh. 17. 24. Let them be with me where I am that they may behold my glory God will take us where we shall see the Countenance and hear the Conference too of that Man in vvhom dwells the fulness of the Godhead bodily God will take us into the Embraces of him vvho has loved us and washed us away from our sins in his own blood And when we see him we shall see God in him I suppose that he is the large Golden Vessel full of God from which the heavenly Visions of God are to be derived for evermore Our Felicity shall be that in Mat. 5. 8. They shall see God. God will take us vvhere we shall be made sensible of his Attributes and Perfections in a measure that we are not us'd unto God will take us vvhere we shall not so much in any Creature as in the Mediator see him that is Invisible Secondly God will take the Believer unto a State wherein he shall be wonderfully Conformed to Himself and Christ Jesus The Children of God have His Nature His Image now upon them they shall hereafter arrive to the fulness of it and be filled with all the fulness of God The Psalmist could say in Psal 17. 15. I shall be satisfied when I awake with the likeness of God. God will take us vvhere our Knowledge will be enlarged like the sands on the Sea-shore Where our Vertue shall be compleated into an Heart after God's own Heart God will take us vvhere the Sun of Righteousness will replenish us with bright Beams of Light and Love until we be like him for we shall see him as he is Thirdly God will take the Believer into a State wherein he shall enjoy the best Society of most Righteous Ones We shall be able to speak after the manner of the Apostle in Heb. 12. 22. I am come to an innumerable company of Angels and to the general Assembly of the first-born The Angels they are our Guardians now