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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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The last Parenthesis being so dropped, we may go on, where we left off before it, in our History.
THe last Parenthesis being so dropt, we may go on, where we left off before it, in our History.
On May. 12. 1680. The Synod had a Second Session at Boston; When Our Confession of Faith was agreed upon. Though there were many Elder, and some Famous, Persons in that Venerable Assembly, yet Mr. Mather was chosen their Moderator. He was then Ill, under the Approaches & Beginnings of Fever; but so Intense was he on the Business to be done, that he forgot his Illness; and he kept them so close to their Business, that in Two Days they dispatched it: and he also Composed the Preface to the Confession.
On May. 12. 1680. The Synod had a Second Session at Boston; When Our Confession of Faith was agreed upon. Though there were many Elder, and some Famous, Persons in that Venerable Assembly, yet Mr. Mather was chosen their Moderator. He was then Ill, under the Approaches & Beginnings of Fever; but so Intense was he on the Business to be done, that he forgot his Illness; and he kept them so close to their Business, that in Two Days they dispatch'd it: and he also Composed the Proeface to the Confession.
On this he immediately took his Bed under a dangerous Fever; which anon left him under an Ague; and this was attended with a Cough, which carried the Symptoms of a Consumption with it; so that he was brought very low, and his Life was much despaired of. But GOD stirred up the Hearts of many Godly and Worthy People, to be much in Prayer for him. His own Church expressed their Love to him, in keeping of no less than Three Days of Prayer that his Life might be prolonged, and his Health restored. On one of those Days, the Venerable Old Mr. Eliot Preached a Sermon on those Words,