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

In the Circumstances of his own Children, he saw many Effects of an Extraordinary Faith.

His Eldest Son, Edmund, while Travelling into the Countries, which the Bloody Popish Inquisition, has made a Clime too Torrid for a Protestant, was Extremely Exposed: but the Prayers of the Young Gentleman's continually Distressed Father, for him, were answered, with Signal Preservations. When he was under Examination by the Inquisitors, a Friend of the Chief among them, suddenly arrived; and the Inquisitor not having •een this Friend for many years before, was ⟨p. 34⟩hereby so diverted and mollified, that he carried the Young Mr. Wilson to Dinner with him; and, though he had passed hitherto Unknown by his True Name, yet this Inquisitor could now call him, to his great Surprise, by the Name, of Mr. Wilson, and report unto him the Character of his Father, and his Fathers Industry in Serving the Heretics of New-England. But, that which I here most of all design, is an Account of a thing yet more Memorable and Unaccountable. For, at another Time, his Father Dreamt himself Transported into Italy, where he saw a Beautiful Person in the Sons Chamber, Endeavouring, with a thousand Enchantments to debauch him; whereupon the Old Gentleman made, and was by his Bed-fellow overheard making, first, Prayers to God full of Agony, and then Warnings unto his Tempted Son, to Beware of Defiling himself with the Daughter of a Strange God. Now, some Considerable while after this, the Young Gentleman Writes to his Father, that on such a Night, (which was upon Enquiry found the very same Night,) a Gentlewoman had caressed him, thus and so (just according to the Vision,) and that his Chastity had been Conquered, if he had not been Strongly Possessed with a Sense of his Fathers Prayers over him, and Warnings unto him, for his Escape from the Pits, whereinto do fall the Abhorred of the Lord.

His Eldest Son, Edmund, while Travelling into the Countries, which the Bloody Popish Inquisition, has made a Clime too Torrid for a Protestant, was Extreamly Exposed: but the Prayers of the Young Gentlemans continually Distressed Father, for him, were answered, with Signal Preservations. When he was under Examination by the Inquisitors, a Friend of the Chief among them, suddenly arrived; and the Inquisitor not having een this Friend for many years before, was