His Faithfulness now appeared in his Edifying Discourses to those that came near him; much bewailing the want of a Profitable and Religious conversation in so many that profess Religion. And that yet he might more Faithfully set himself to do Good, when he could not Preach he Wrote several Composures, wherein he proposed the edification of such Readers as are for plain Truths, dressed up in a Plain Meeter. These Composures have had their Acceptance and Advantage among that sort of Readers; and one of them, the Day of Doom, which has been often Reprinted in both Englands, may find our Children till the Day itself arrive.
It pleased God, when the distress of the Church in Malden did extremely call for it, wondrously to restore his Faithful Servant. He that had been for near Twenty Years almost Buried Alive, comes abroad again, and for as many years more, must, in Publick Usefulness, receive the Answer and Harvest of the Thousands of Supplications with which the God of his Health had favoured him.
How Faithfully did he now Deliver the Whole Counsel of God!
How Faithfully did he Rebuke Sin, both in his Ministry and Discipline!
How Faithful was he to the Work of God in the Churches of New-England, and grieved at every thing that he thought had any Tendency to incommode that Glorious Work! But how Patient, how Loving, how Charitable to such as in lesser Matters differed from him!
How Faithful was he in the Education of his Family! A very Abraham for his Commands unto them, to Keep the Way of the Lord! A very David for his charge unto them to Know the God of their Father and Serve Him!
His long Weakness and Illness made him an able Physician for the Body as well the Soul.
As he was Faithful to the Death, so he was Lively to the Death.
It was a surprise to us to see a little, feeble Shadow of a Man, beyond Seventy, preaching usually twice or thrice in a week, Visiting, Comforting the Afflicted, Encouraging the Private Meetings, Catechising the Children of the Flock, and managing the Government of the Church, and attending the Sick, not only as a Pastor, but as a Physician too; and this not only in his own Town, but also in all those of the Vicinity. Thus he did unto the Last; and he was but one Lord's-Day taken off before his Last. But in the Last Week of his Life, how full of Resignation! How full of Satisfaction!
From his Exemplary Life I will single out one thing, his EARLY RELIGION. Our Wigglesworth was a Godly child, and he held on living to God and Christ until the Seventy-Fourth Year of his Age.