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Cotton Mather's verse in English
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
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Part One: Religious Meditations
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Part Two: Elegies and Epitaphs
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Part Three: Verse for Children
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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
High Attainments.
Psal. 68.19.
[Health, Bread, with Life, my God mee sends]
[Lord, bought by thy All-worthy Blood]
[In Peace with God Ly down I Will]
Heb. 11. 17. with Gen. 22. 12
[I Stript of Earthly Comforts am]
[AND now to Life Rais'd by the Heavenly Call]
[I did lift up my Voice to Jah]
[Go then, my DOVE, but now no longer mine]
The Sons of God shouting for Joy at the Arrival of the Lord's-day.
[O Glorious CHRIST of GOD; I live]
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