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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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Another is This. At the Waters. There again the Lord Enabled me with Tears, and Persuasion of a Gracious Answer, to pour out my Desires before Him, for both Bodily & Spiritual Healing to be vouchsafed unto me. My dear GOD in JESUS CHRIST, will certainly accept of some Service from me; Blessed be His Glorious Name forever and ever! Amen! Amen!
Another is This. At the Waters. There again the Lord Enabled me with Tears, and Perswasion of a Gracious Answer, to pour out my Desires before Him, for both Bodily & Spiritual Healing to be vouchsafed unto me. My dear GOD in JESUS CHRIST, will certainly accept of some Service from me; Blessed be His Glorious Name forever and ever! Amen! Amen!
It was not long before the Lost Jewel was restored unto him. Nevertheless, in the way to it, he met with many grievous Pangs of Overwhelming ⟨p. 72⟩Melancholy: of which he also says, I found the Prayer of Faith to be the best Remedy against it. But of this also, I will from his Diary, only note a Couple of Passages.
One is this; As I was returning home from Lin, at the end of the Town, a poor Godly Woman (whose Name is Mansfield) desired those that Rode with me to go forward, for she must needs speak with me. When I stopped, O Sir, (said she, with much affection, and many Tears) I am troubled at my Condition. I am afraid, that I grieve the Good Spirit of GOD, by not being so cheerful as I ought to be. I am Dejected, and my Soul is Disquieted; and when I meet with Afflictions, I lay them too much to Heart; and I doubt, I herein offend so Gracious a Father, as GOD has been unto me; a GOD who has done much for me, and and sometimes Manifested Himself unto me. I was astonished to hear her speak, and see her come thus to me for some Relief in such Temptations. I concluded, that this poor Woman (who little thought so herself) was a Messenger sent from GOD unto me; For she spoke to my very Condition, as if He that knows all things had put Words into her Mouth. Oh! Let the Great Physicians of Souls (said I then) Look upon me, and let Him Heal me, and give me Power of Grace to be more than a Conqueror over my Special Infirmities.