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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 wherein the SOCIETIES formed for the Propagation of Religion, do fairly serve the cause of Pure & Undefiled Religion; and their Wisdom dwells with the Prudence, which finds out the Knowledge of Well-Advised Inventions to do the Best Good that can be done unto & among the Sons of Men; and such things are done, as may give a full Satisfaction unto those who send in their Bounties from all parts unto their Treasury, that their Money ⟨p. V⟩is not Misapplied, but that their Bountiful Oblations will be such Sacrifices as GOD, through' His CHRIST, will be Well-Pleased withal; and their Substance never better Bestowed, than in this way of Laying up good Bills of Exchange for the time to come. Their Missionaries have the right Spirit of the Gospel, and not of a party in them: and are the Angels that carry the pure Maxims of the Everlasting Gospel with them.
A CHURCH wherein the SOCIETIES formed for the Propagation of Religion, do fairly serve the cause of Pure & Undefiled Religion; and their Wisdom dwells with the Prudence, which finds out the Knowledge of Well-Advised Inventions to do the Best Good that can be done unto & among the Sons of Men; and such things are done, as may give a full Satisfaction unto those who send in their Bounties from all parts unto their Treasury, that their Money ⟨p. V⟩is not Misapplied, but that their Bountiful Oblations will be such Sacrifices as GOD, thro' His CHRIST, will be Well-Pleased withal; and their Substance never better Bestowed, than in this way of Laying up good Bills of Exchange for the time to come. Their Missionaries have the right Spirit of the Gospel, and not of a party in them: and are the Angels that carry the pure Maxims of the Everlasting Gospel with them.
To do any Service for such a CHURCH, tho' the doer of it should be ranked among the lowest Netbinims, were an Honour, which I know one, who is as Ambitious as he is Unworthy of. And if the little Book which now goes over to you,—Alas, That he who sends it, can't go with it!—may be so Honoured, as to be in any sort useful to the best Interests among you, I am in the glad Circumstances of the Man who sees his Desire Accomplished.