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Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…
Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who expired, August 23. 1723. : [One line from II Kings]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724
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REMARKABLES OF Dr. Increase Mather. › Article 11: ARTICLE XI. An Entrance into the Holiest of all.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
On another, thus. Quickenings at the Lords Table, especially in Praying for our Children, that GOD would Remember His Covenant with them: and saying, O Heavenly Father, Did not JESUS CHRIST make His Soul an Offering for the sins of our Children, as well as our sins? Did not He Die, for our Children as well as for us? Therefore let thy CHRIST see His Seed; Let our poor Children be Converted unto Thee, that they may Glorify GOD with us in the World that is to come, and World without End.
On another, thus. Quickenings at the Lords Table, especially in Praying for our Children, that GOD would Remember His Covenant with them: and saying, O Heavenly Father, Did not JESUS CHRIST make His Soul an Offering for the sins of our Children, as well as our sins? Did not He Dy, for our Children as well as for us? Therefore let thy CHRIST see His Seed; Let our poor Children be Converted unto Thee, that they may Glorify GOD with us in the World that is to come, and World without End.
Indeed the Prayers, and the earnest and mighty Pleadings, with which on the Sacramental Occasions, he commonly Wept before the Lord, on the behalf of his own, and his peoples Off spring, were such as carried Evident Marks of an Heavenly Afflation in them.
In his latter Years, he did not Record so many of these Heavenly Afflations, because they grew so frequent with him. And he also found a Truth, in what some Candidates of Heaven, Approaching to the Courts of the Lord, have Observed; That the Flights of a Soul rapt up into a more Intimate Conversation with Heaven, are such as cannot be exactly Remembered with the Happy Partakers of them. The Sublime Conceptions, and the flowing ⟨p. 49⟩Expressions, of the Soul in such Heavenward Sallies are presently lost; and though the Feasted Soul would give never so much to recover them, they can by no means do it. The Spirit that made them, once being Retired, the very Remembrance of them cannot any more be Recovered.