Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

ARTICLE XV. Chastened Sore, but not Given over to DEATH.

IN the Month of April, 1669. His Father, being Moderator of a Council met at Boston, and Lodging at his House, was taken so very Ill, that he was Obliged thereupon to Accompany him in ⟨p. 66⟩the Conveyance of a Coach to Dorchester; Where the Venerable Old Man; after little more than a Weeks Torture from that Scourge of Students, from which he had hitherto Suffered very little, but now bore a Terrible Assault from it with Incredible, and Incomparable Patience, (in the Intervals reading Dr. Goodwins little Book, Of Patience) resigned his Holy Soul into the Hands of his Redeemer: and there was this odd Circumstance in his Malady, that there did come from him, and were found in him, just as many Stones as there were Years of his Age, which were Seventy Three. He did with all Filial Affection Attend and Comfort and Strengthen his Afflicted Parent in his Agonies; and received from him those Instructions relating to the State of Religion in the Churches, which afterwards he Published unto them. And then, after the Death of his Father, he gave the People of GOD, a Taste of what he Lived upon, in a Sermon on those Words; Phil IV. 20. GOD—our Father

IN the Month of April, 1669. His Father, being Moderator of a Council met at Boston, and Lodging at his House, was taken so very Ill, that he was Obliged thereupon to Accompany him in ⟨p. 66⟩the Conveyance of a Coach to Dorchester; Where the Venerable Old Man; after little more than a Weeks Torture from that Scourge of Students, from which he had hitherto Suffered very little, but now bore a Terrible Assault from it with Incredible, and Incomparable Patience, (in the Intervals reading Dr. Goodwins little Book, Of Patience) resigned his Holy Soul into the Hands of his Redeemer: and there was this odd Circumstance in his Malady, that there did come from him, and were found in him, just as many Stones as there were Years of his Age, which were Seventy Three. He did with all Filial Affection Attend and Comfort and Strengthen his Afflicted Parent in his Agonies; and received from him those Instructions relating to the State of Religion in the Churches, which afterwards he Published unto them. And then, after the Death of his Father, he gave the People of GOD, a Tast of what he Lived upon, in a Sermon on those Words; Phil IV. 20. GOD—our Father