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Cotton Mather's verse in English
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
1.
Part One: Religious Meditations
2.
Part Two: Elegies and Epitaphs
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Part Three: Verse for Children
[I.] Little Children Brought unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST.
[II.] Early Religion.
[III.] The Consent of the Believer unto the Ten Commandments.
[IV.] The Lords Prayer.
[V.] The Lords-Day.
[VI.] Prayer Encouraged.
Instructions for CHILDREN.
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I. The Ancient Creed.
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II. The Child's Resolution.
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III. The Child at his Food.
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IV. The Child thinking on his Baptism.
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V. The Child on the Lord's Day.
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VI. The Child seeing the Funeral of another Child.
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VII. The Body of Divinity Versifyed.
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Part Four: Agricola Verse
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Part Five: Hymns
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Part Six: Bible Verse
Appendix A. Diary and Paterna Verse
Appendix B. Hand-Written Inscriptions
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Cotton Mather's verse in English
And then his
Orphans
, all
ensabled
add
O could be say—that once a Father had,
A Father whose paternal over-sight
Did make us over happy, whose Delight
Was in our
Welfare,
whose Behaviours
Still taught us
—Mercy!
what a loss is our's
!
Cotton Mather's verse in English