Cotton Mather's verse in English

Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)

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.

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.

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

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.

Part Five: Hymns

[The Mercies of Almighty God]

[I.] The Song of the Pardoned.

[II.] Good Inferences.

[III.] The Lessons of the Gospel.

[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.

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.

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

[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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[I.] The Song of the Pardoned.

Luke VII. 4.7.

THE Sin of my First Father is
Mine, the Just Law doth say,
The Sin of a Vile Nature, This
Doth unto me Convey.

Innumerable Sins I do
Hence madly Perpetrate;
Sins, which the Good I Have and Know;
Doth sadly aggravate.

But, O my Precious CHRIST, I see,
THOU art my Surety made:
A Full Obedience was by Thee
To Thy Great Father Paid.

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Thy Vast Obedience is by Him
Now freely Reckon'd mine;
And me doth unto Life Redeem
That Righteousness of Thine.

O may I Love that Glorious One:
Lord, Thou deserv'st my Love;
Such Things Thy Love hath for me done,
Things all my Thoughts above!

My God, I Love Thee; And I Grieve
That I Love Thee no more:
I Love Thee, and that I may Live
Thy Praises, I Implore.

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[I.] The Song of the Pardoned.