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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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And Pray for the Queen.
For God has blessed the Nation with a Queen (as well as with a King) the like unto whom (without Reflection on any Predecessors) never sat on the English Throne. A Queen that loveth all people that are good, whatever their persuasions in matters relating to Conscience may be. A Queen that is a pattern of Virtue to the Nation. A Queen that has ⟨p. 23⟩(to my certain knowledge) interceded with the King, that He would be kind to New-England. Pray then for the Life and Prosperity of such a King and such a Queen. And I do the rather urge this upon you, because I have sometimes been favoured with the Liberty humbly to assure Their Majesties, that there are none in the World that Pray for them with more fervency and frequency then do Their Subjects in New-England. I beseech you make it appear that I was not mistaken in what I have affirmed concerning you.
For God has blessed the Nation with a Queen (as well as with a King) the like unto whom (without Reflection on any Predecessors) never sat on the English Throne. A Queen that loveth all people that are good, whatever their perswasions in matters relating to Conscience may be. A Queen that is a pattern of Vertue to the Nation. A Queen that has ⟨p. 23⟩(to my certain knowledge) interceded with the King, that He would be kind to New-England. Pray then for the Life and Prosperity of such a King and such a Queen. And I do the rather urge this upon you, because I have sometimes been favoured with the Liberty humbly to assure Their Majesties, that there are none in the World that Pray for them with more fervency and frequency then do Their Subjects in New-England. I beseech you make it appear that I was not mistaken in what I have affirmed concerning you.