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Cotton Mather's verse in English

Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)

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Part One: Religious Meditations

The Body of Divinity Versifyed.

Conversion Exemplified.

My Satisfaction.

My Resignation.

Songs in Such a Night.

My Text Paraphrased, and Faith Exhibited.

[Go then, my Dove, but now no longer Mine!]

The Language of a SOUL taken in, The Nets of Salvation.

The Consent. In imitation of the Virgin's Answer to the Angel.

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Part Two: Elegies and Epitaphs

A POEM Dedicated to the Memory OF The Reverend and Excellent MR. URIAN OAKES, the late Pastor to Christ's Flock, and Præsident of Harvard-Colledge, in Cambridge, Who was gathered to his People on 25d 5mo 1681. In the fifty'th Year of his Age.

Memoirs of the Life and Worth: Lamentations for the Death, and Loss of the every way admirable Mr. URIAN OAKES.

AN ELEGY ON The Much-to-be-deplored DEATH OF That Never-to-be-forgotten PERSON, The Reverend Mr. NATHANAEL COLLINS;

An ELEGY Upon the DEATH of Mrs. MARY BROWN; Who Dyed in Travail, (with her Unborn Child;) On Dec. 26. 1703.Ætatis Suæ 35.

A Lacrymatory: Design'd for the Tears let fall at the Funeral of Mrs. SARAH LEVERET; Who Dy'd 2d. 11 M. 1704,5.

On the GRAVES, OF MY Young Brethren,

GRATITUDINIS ERGO, An ESSAY on the Memory of my Venerable MASTER; Ezekiel Cheever.

EPITAPHIUM. EZEKIEL CHEEVERUS.

The Excellent WIGGLESWORTH, Remembred by some Good Tokens.

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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.

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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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4.

Part Four: Agricola Verse

Singing at the PLOW.

The SOWER a Singer.

The RAIN gasped for.

The Song of the SITHE.

The Sons of GOD, Singing among The Trees of GOD; Full of Sap, and of Songs before Him.

The Songs of HARVEST.

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Part Five: Hymns

[The Mercies of Almighty God]

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[I.] The Song of the Pardoned.

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[II.] Good Inferences.

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[III.] The Lessons of the Gospel.

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[IV.] Evening Thoughts.

An hymn. The Right Understanding of much Affliction

Tried, and Coming forth as Gold. A Short HYMN, To Assist the Pauses of a SELF-EXAMINATION.

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Part Six: Bible Verse

X. COMMANDMENTS.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

A Preparatory Thanksgiving-Song, fetch'd from the Beginning and Conclusion of the Hundred and Third Psalm.

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Appendix A. Diary and Paterna Verse

High Attainments.

[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]

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Appendix B. Hand-Written Inscriptions

[On my dear Liza I this Book bestow]

[Written on the Title Page of A Monumental Gratitude]

The Pidgeon Py. A Poem in Imitation of the Monumental Gratitude.

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III. The Child at his Food.

At Eating, thus I ever shou'd
Devout and Thankful be;
My God, I Bless thee for my Food;
Let it be Bless'd to me.
A Child, that when he goes to Eat,
Thinks not of GOD at all,
Is like the Bruits, which at their Meat
On God do never call.