Memoria Wilsoniana. Or, Some dues unto the memory of the truly Reverend & renowned…

Once passing over the Ferry unto a Lecture, on the other side of the Water, he took notice of a Young man in the Boat, that Worded it very unhandsomely unto his Aged Father: whereat this Faithful Seer, being much Troubled, said unto him, Young man, I advise you to Repent of your Undutiful Rebellious Carriage towards your Father; I expect else to […], that God has cut you off, before a Twelve month come to an End! And before this time expired, it came to pass, that this unhappy Youth, going to the Southward, was there Hacked in pieces, by the Pequod Indians.

Once passing over the Ferry unto a Lecture, on the other side of the Water, he took notice of a Young man in the Boat, that Worded it very unhandsomely unto his Aged Father: whereat this Faithful Seer, being much Troubled, said unto him, Young man, I advise you to Repent of your Undutiful Rebellious Carriage towards your Father; I expect else to 〈…〉, that God has cut you off, before a Twelve month come to an End! And before this time expired, it came to pass, that this unhappy Youth, going to the Southward, was there Hack'd in pieces, by the Pequod Indians.

A Company of People in this Country, were mighty not upon a Project of Removing to Providence, an Island in the West Indies; and a Venerable Assembly of the Chief Magistrates, and Ministers in the Colony, was addressed for their Counsel about this undertaking; which Assembly hid before the Company very weighty Reasons to Dissuade them from it. A Prime Ringleader in that Business, was One Venner a Cooper of Salem, the Mad Blade, that afterwards perished in a Nonsensical Uproar, which he, with a Crew of Bedlamites, possessed like himself, made in London. This Venner, with some others, now stood up, and said, That notwithstanding, what had been Offered, they were clear in their Call to Remove: Whereupon, Mr. Wilson stood up and answered, Ay, Do ⟨p. 32⟩you c•me to Ask Counsel in so weighty a matter as this, and to have Help from an Ordinance of God in it? and are you aforehand Resolved, that you will Go on? Well, you may Go, if you will; but you shall not prosper. What? Do you make a Mock of Gods Ordinance? And it came to pass accordingly; The Enterprise was, not long after, dashed in pieces; and Venner's precipitating Impulses, afterwards carried him to a miserable End.