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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.
  
My Resolution.
  
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.
  
EPITAPH
  
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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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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Isaiah XXVI.
  
The Title:
  
The Song
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Divine hymns.
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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.
  
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]
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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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Singing at the PLOW.

My Heart, how very Hard its grown!
Thicken'd and stiffen'd Clay:
Daily trod by the Wicked One;
Of Sin the Beaten Way.
An Heart, wherein compacted Weeds
Of Diverse Lusts abound;
No Entrance for the Heavenly Seeds,
Falling on such a Ground!
O my Almighty SAVIOUR, come;
Thy Word's a wondrous Plow:
And let thy SPIRIT drive it home;
This Heart, Oh! Break it so!
Lord, let my Broken Heart receive
Thy Truth with Faith and Love:
May it a Just Reception give
To what falls from Above.
Will my GOD Plow upon a Rock!
Change thou the Soyl, my Lord!
My Heart once by thy Plow-share broke,
Will Entertain thy Word.
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