Cotton Mather's verse in English

IN GOD the FATHER I Believe;
He's the Almighty One.
I JESUS CHRIST, our Lord, Receive,
God's Dear and Only SON.
I do Adore the Holy SPIRIT;
Who is to Raise the Dead,
And bring His People to Inherit,
Life that shall never Fade.

II. The Child's Resolution.

Help me my God! For unto thee
I do Resolve to Pray,
To Grant thy Christ and Grace to me;
I'll do it every Day.

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Heavenly Father, Give me thy Christ;
Give me thy Spirit; Pardon my Sins;
Make me thy Servant; Bring me to thy
Kingdom; O Great GOD, who art Father,
and Son, and Holy Spirit; I Desire to be
Thine for evermore. Amen.

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.

IV. The Child thinking on his Baptism.

Baptis'd for thee, O Glorious One,
Thee for my GOD I take:
Thee will I Love and Serve alone;
And Thee my Portion make.
My Baptism gave me unto thee;
Possess me then, O Lord;
My Father, Saviour, Leader be,
According to thy Word.

V. The Child on the Lord's Day.

My Saviour's Risen from the Dead,
And Lives Enthron'd Above;
The Price of my Salvation's Paid,
My Life is in His Love.
With Holy Sabbaths He, in Peace,
Hath me Victorious blest;
Lord, Bring thou me, thro' Holiness,
To Victory, and Rest.

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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.

VII. The Body of Divinity Versifyed.

[1.]

A GOD there is, a GOD of boundless Might,
In Wisdom, Justice, Goodness Infinite.

[Heb. XI.6. Psal. CXLVII.5. CXLV.9,17.]

2.

God is but ONE, & yet in Persons Three
The Father, Son, & Spirit, One God we see.

[1 Job. V. 7.]

3.

Our God, by His Great Name JEHOVAH Known
HE the World Made, and Keeps, and Rules Alone.

[Neh. IX.6.]

4.

To Glorify the Glorious GOD, is That
For which He did all Men, & me Create.

[Isai. XLI. 21.]

5.

God a Just Rule doth in our Bible give,
A Rule, both what to Think, and how to Live.

[2 Tim. III. 15,16,17]

6.

Holy & Happy our First Parents came
From Gods Hand, with Gods Image in our Frame.

[Gen. I. 27.]

7.

Tasting Forbidden Fruit our Parents fell;
This Taste has plung'd Mankind all down to Hell.

[Rom. V. 12]

8.

Our Blest Lord JESUS CHRIST, in our Distress,

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Comes to fetch us from Hell to Blessedness.

[Luk. XIX.10.]

9.

Into His Person, the Bright Son of God
A Virgins Son took; There he makes Abode.

[Isa. VII. 14.]

10.

Life as a Priest CHRIST will His People bring,
Light as a Prophet, and Law as a King.

[Psal. CX.4. Acts III.22. Isa. XXXIII.22.]

11.

For us our Surety Liv'd, for us He Dy'd,
And Rising did to Heav'n in Triumph Ride.

[Phil. II. 7, 8, 9.]

12.

By Faith to CHRIST we for Salvation go;
Faith too, as well as That must He bestow.

[Eph. II.8.]

13.

For Sin will the renew'd Believer Mourn,
And from all Sin, hee'l by Repentance Turn.

[Acts XX.21.]

14.

Sinners receiving of Gods Pardon, they
Gods Precept will, made Saints, with Love Obey.

[Tit. II. 12,13,14.]

15.

All Homage we must yield unto the Lord;
In all Directed, by his Heavenly Word.
His Works and Names, we may not use in Vain;
Nor by our Works thereon His Days profane.
With Honours due we must our Neighbours treat;
And sweetly wish them Lives both Long and Sweet.
With Chastity we must our selves Behave;
And do no Wrong in what we get or Save.
Truth we must utter, and Abhor to Lye;
And be Content, tho' in Adversity.

[Exod. XX 3–17. Matth. XXI 1.37,38,39]

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16.

Them who to be in CHRIST thro' Grace, Consent,
God brings into His Gracious Covenant.

[Isa. LV. 3.]

17.

The Baptism of the Lord, assures that we
Both Wash'd from Sin and Rais'd from Death, shall be.

[Rom. V. 4,5.]

18.

To See the Lord, we at His Table Sitt,
And show that we shall in His Kingdom eat.

[1 Cor. XI. 26.]

19.

Gods Children His Good Promises Enjoy;
And Good comes of what Ill may them annoy.

[2 Pet. I.4; Rom. VIII.28.]

20.

His Angels he to them does Guardians make,
And these their Souls, at their Departure take.

[Heb. I.14.]

21.

To Judge the World, CHRIST will descend at Last;
A Righteous Doom shall by that Judge be past.

[Acts XVI. 31.]

22.

The Wicked shall bear bitter Pain and Shame,
With Wicked Spirits in Eternal Flame.
The Godly shall, with their Great GOD, on High,
Reap Joyes, High Joyes, to all Eternity.

[Matth. XXV. 46.]

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