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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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He was after all, By Faith out of Weakness made Strong. And Prayer to the Lord our Healer, the Glorious GOD of our Health, had its Efficacy very Conspicuously Signalized in the matter. I will single out one Passage from his Diary to Illustrate it, Written while he was yet under his Confinement.—I Pleaded with the Lord for my Life and Health, and my Heart was raised in some Measure to Believe, That GOD would Restore me to His Service, and to my former Strength again. The Grounds of my Persuasion, were such as these. 1. I had Considered the Poor, GOD therefore Will Preserve me Alive, and Bless me upon Earth. 2. GOD'S Name and Truth is a little Concerned in my Restoration; For some say, That my Sickness ⟨p. 70⟩is come upon me, for my being an Apostate from the Truth, and that I shall never Preach again. 3. GOD hath begun Mercy towards me; and His Works are Perfect. 4. GOD hath stirred up the Hearts of His Servants to Pray for me; and my own Heart also to Pray for my Recovery. 5. The Reason why I desire my Health again, is not that so I might Enjoy Honours & Pleasures in this World, but that so His Name might be Glorified by me. Now seeing I have Prayed for such Ends and from Such Grounds, My Desires will be fulfilled. 6. My Heart doth Trust in GOD for His Salvation. Therefore He will Save me out of this Distress. 7. Because of His Covenant, and because of the Blood of the Covenant. Zech. IX. 11. And, because I have Humbled myself under the Hand of GOD. 1 Pet. V. 6.
He was after all, By Faith out of Weakness made Strong. And Prayer to the Lord our Healer, the Glorious GOD of our Health, had its Efficacy very Conspicuously Signalized in the matter. I will single out one Passage from his Diary to Illustrate it, Written while he was yet under his Confinement.—I Pleaded with the Lord for my Life and Health, and my Heart was raised in some Measure to Believe, That GOD would Restore me to His Service, and to my former Strength again. The Grounds of my Perswasion, were such as these. 1. I had Considered the Poor, GOD therefore Will Preserve me Alive, and Bless me upon Earth. 2. GOD'S Name and Truth is a little Concerned in my Restauration; For some say, That my Sickness ⟨p. 70⟩