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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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The Whisperers that have endeavoured to make people believe that the Ministers who Subscribed that Letter did afterwards repent of their so doing, are Forgers of Lies. Nor would those Worthy Persons account it any other then a Calumny to have such a thing said of them, Four or Five of them having since that Written Letters to some in Boston of the same Import with the Former. And so have several Gentlemen in London, whose Sentiments and Expressions for the present I forbear to mention.
And whereas that Right Worshipful Gentleman, Sr. Henry Ashurst, with whom I had the Honour to be Joined in the same Agency, in behalf of this Colony, and who did fully concur with Me in what was done for New-England, has bin unworthily reflected on by some Male-Contents; for His Vindication as well as My own, and that so the Inhabitants of this Province, both such as are now Living, and such as shall come hereafter, may see, to whom they have (under God) bin Beholden, for what Restor•• Liberties, and Confirmed Properties, they now do, and are like to possess; Judge it proper and necessary to publish some passages in his Letter sent the General Assembly at Boston. Dated December 28th. 1691. In which He thus Speaks.
And whereas that Right Worshipful Gentleman, Sr. Henry Ashurst, with whom I had the Honour to be Joyned in the same Agency, in behalf of this Colony, and who did fully concurr with Me in what was done for New-England, has bin unworthily reflected on by some Male-Contents; for His Vindication as well as My own, and that so the Inhabitants of this Province, both such as are now Living, and such as shall come hereafter, may see, to whom they have (under God) bin Beholden, for what Restor•• Liberties, and Confirmed Properties, they now do, and are like to possess; Judge it proper and necessary to publish some passages in his Letter sent the General Assembly at Boston. Dated December 28th. 1691. In which He thus Speaks.