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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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A CHURCH, which after it has undergone a Finishing Stroke of Persecution with such Barbarous and Inhumane Cruelties, for Four times Seven Years together, as were hardly ever equalled among all the vile things done under the Sun, the Burning Bush has not been Consumed; but the Professors of the Truth have after all been found more Numerous and more Powerful than they were before, and able to bring about a Revolution, which was indeed the Lords Doing, and ought forever to be Marvellous in our Eyes! The Persecutors are by a mighty Hand of GOD Wondrously turned out of Doors; And the Historical Pen of a Meritorious Woodrow, following what has been done by the Polemical Pen of an Astonishing Jameson (who has pulled a Temple down like another Sampson) it may be hoped, has clapped an Eternal Bolt upon them.
A CHURCH, which after it has undergone a Finishing Stroke of Persecution with such Barbarous and Inhumane Cruelties, for Four times Seven Years together, as were hardly ever equalled among all the vile things done under the Sun, the Burning Bush has not been Consumed; but the Professors of the Truth have after all been found more Numerous and more Powerful than they were before, and able to bring about a Revolution, which was indeed the Lords Doing, and ought forever to be Marvellous in our Eyes! The Persecutors are by a mighty Hand of GOD Wondrously turned out of Doors; And the Historical Pen of a Meritorious Woodrow, following what has been done by the Polemical Pen of an Astonishing Jameson (who has pull'd a Temple down like another Sampson) it may be hoped, has clap'd an Eternal Bolt upon them.
A CHURCH, wherein the Excellent Wisdom found in the Servants of GOD, which upon just occasions knows how to Bury in Oblivion the lesser Differences arising on Various Temptations, and coalesce in the Common Cause of all True Protestants, has in it something that is Great and Just and Generous, and not every where to be met withal, Where is the place of such understanding, which is hid, from the Eyes of almost all the Living.