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The great blessing, of primitive counsellors. Discoursed in a sermon, preached in the audience…The great blessing, of primitive counsellours. Discoursed in a sermon, preached in the audience…
The great blessing, of primitive counsellors. Discoursed in a sermon, preached in the audience of the governor, Council, and representatives, of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England. May 31st. 1693. Being the day for the election of counsellors, in that province. / By Increase Mather. President of Harvard College in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston, in New-England. ; [One line epigram in Latin]The great blessing, of primitive counsellours. Discoursed in a sermon, preached in the audience of the governour, Council, and representatives, of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England. May 31st. 1693. Being the day for the election of counsellours, in that province. / By Increase Mather. President of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston, in New-England. ; [One line epigram in Latin]
Boston, : Printed and sold, by Benjamin Harris, over-against the Old-Meeting-House., 1693
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If I never endeavoured the Restoration of Old Charter Priv•• edges, by means of whose Solicitations was it, that Votes were passed in t•• Honourable House of Commons, that the Old Charter should be restored, a• a Bill wherein the Judgment against that Charter was Reversed, a Co•• whereof I can produce? And who was it that wrote and dispersed, Reas•• for the Confirmation of that Charter? Or, that did oftentimes Humb•• Address Their Majesties, and Their Principal Ministers of State conc•• ning that affair? Day and Night have seen, Heaven and Earth ha•• heard, both Worlds are Witnesses, with what Importunities I have Sollicit•• both God and Man, for all your ancient Privileges, yea and for Ad•• tionals unto them, according to the Instructions which the General Co• sent unto me, about my attendance to every one of which I gave to t•• General Assembly a Particular and Satisfactory account at my first Arriv••.
If I never endeavoured the Restoration of Old Charter Priv•• edges, by means of whose Sollicitations was it, that Votes were passed in t•• Honourable House of Commons, that the Old Charter should be restored, a• a Bill wherin the Judgment against that Charter was Reversed, a Co•• whereof I can produce? And who was it that wrote and dispersed, Reas•• for the Confirmation of that Charter? Or, that did oftentimes Humb•• Address Their Majesties, and Their Principal Ministers of State conc•• ning that affair? Day and Night have seen, Heaven and Earth ha heard, both Worlds are Witnesses, with what Importunities I have Sollicit both God and Man, for all your ancient Priviledges, yea and for Ad tionals unto them, according to the Instructions which the General Co sent unto me, about my attendance to every one of which I gave to t General Assembly a Particular and Satisfactory account at my first Arriv.