Corderius Americanus: An Essay Upon the Good Education of Children, &c. &c. Delivered at the Funeral of Ezekiel Cheever, Principal of the Latin School in Boston; who Died, August, 1708, in the Ninty-fourth Year of His Age. With an Elegy and an Epitaph |
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Page 13 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Page 5 - He arrived into this Country, in June 1637. with the rest of those Good men, who sought a peaceable Secession in an American Wilderness, for the pure Evangelical, and Instituted Worship of our Great Redeemer; to which he kept a strict Adherence all his Days. He then Sojourned first a little while, part of a Year, at Boston ; so that at Boston, he both Commenced and Concluded his American Race. His Holy Life, was a Married Life.
Page 19 - He was well Studied in the Body of Divinity : An Able Defender of the Faith and Order of the Gospel ; Notably Conversant and Acquainted with the Scriptural Prophecies ; And, by Consequence, A Sober Chiliast.
Page 6 - Year of his Age; After he had been a Skilful, Painful, Faithful Schoolmaster, for Seventy Years ; And had the Singular Favour of Heaven, that tho' he had Usefully spent his Life among Children, yet he was not become Twice a Child ; but held his Abilities, with his Usefulness, in an unusual Degree to the very last.
Page 18 - MASTERS that have Used the Office well, purchase to themselves, a Good Esteem to Out-live their Death, as well as Merit for themselves a good Support while they Live. 'Tis a Justice to them...
Page 5 - ... this Country, in June 1637, with the rest of those Good men, who sought a peaceable Secession in an American Wilderness, for the pure Evangelical, and Instituted Worship of our Great Redeemer; to which he kept a strict Adherence all his Days. He then Sojourned first a little while, part of a year, at Boston, so that at Boston, he both Commenced and Concluded his American Race. His Holy Life, was a Married Life. "He began the Laborious Work of a School-Master, at Newhaven, where he continued for...
Page 19 - Scholars that were a Crown unto him; yea, many that will be his Crown, in the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his Coming; yea, many that were got into the Heavenly World before him. And the mention of the Heavenly World, leads me to that which I would principally take notice of. His PIETY, I say, His PIETY; and his care to infuse Documents of Piety into the Scholars under his Charge, that he might carry them with him to the Heavenly World. When Aristotle set up a Monument for his Master Plato,...
Page 20 - Righteousness of a Glorious CHRIST, he let us know, was the Golden Staff, which he Lean'd upon. He Dyed mourning for the Quick Apostasie, which he saw breaking in upon us; very easie about his own Eternal Happiness, but full of Distress for a poor People here under the Displeasure of Heaven, for Former Iniquities, he thought, as well as Later 24 Ones.
Page 5 - A due Care about a Funeral for the Dead, among the Jews had that Phrase for it; A Bestowing of Mercy. But the Sermon which I have Employ'd on the Funeral of my Master, must be called; A Doing of Justice. And I am very much misinformed, if this were not the General Voice of all the Auditory.
Page 20 - Ones. To say no more: He Dyed, A CANDIDATE FOR THE FIRST RESURRECTION. And Verily, our Land is Weakened, when those Fly away, at whose Flight we may cry out, My Father, My Father, the Chariots of New England, and the Horsemen thereof.