Cotton Mather's verse in English

Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)

Part One: Religious Meditations

Part Two: Elegies and Epitaphs

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.

I. The Ancient Creed.

II. The Child's Resolution.

III. The Child at his Food.

IV. The Child thinking on his Baptism.

V. The Child on the Lord's Day.

VI. The Child seeing the Funeral of another Child.

VII. The Body of Divinity Versifyed.

Part Four: Agricola Verse

Part Five: Hymns

Part Six: Bible Verse

Appendix A. Diary and Paterna Verse

Appendix B. Hand-Written Inscriptions

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VI. The Child seeing the Funeral of another Child.

I in the Burying Place may see
Graves not so long as I.
From Deaths Arrest no Age is free;
Young Children too may Dy.
My God, may such an awful sight
Awakening be to me!
Oh! that by Early Grace I might
For Death prepared be.

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VI. The Child seeing the Funeral of another Child.