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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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REMARKABLES OF Dr. Increase Mather. › Article 21: ARTICLE XXI. A Variety of Sufferings.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
ARTICLE XXI. A Variety of Sufferings.
IN the Year, 1684. he was under a Third Visitation brought very nigh unto Death, from a Dangerous Fever; under which there were (as formerly) many Prayers put up to Heaven for him. And he enjoyed (as formerly) a calm Serenity of a Mind Rejoicing in the Hope of the Glory of GOD. After some some Weeks of Confinement, he was Restored unto his Flock; whom, at ⟨p. 93⟩his first coming abroad (on the Twenty fourth of August,) he Entertained with an agreeable Sermon, on Isa. XXXVIII. 18, 9. The Grave cannot Praise thee,—The Living, The Living, He shall Praise thee, as I do this Day: Insisting on This; That the Servants of GOD, whilst Living in this World have many Opportunities and Advantages to Glorify GOD, which the Saints in Heaven have not: Of which he proposed That as the last Article; The Servants of GOD, while they are in this World, may Suffer for Him. And now, we must expect, Sir, that you will Confirm your Doctrine.
IN the Year, 1684. he was under a Third Visitation brought very nigh unto Death, from a Dangerous Fever; under which there were (as formerly) many Prayers put up to Heaven for him. And he enjoy'd (as formerly) a calm Serenity of a Mind Rejoycing in the Hope of the Glory of GOD. After some some Weeks of Confinement, he was Restored unto his Flock; whom, at ⟨p. 93⟩his first coming abroad (on the Twenty fourth of August,) he Entertain'd with an agreeable Sermon, on Isa. XXXVIII. 18, 9. The Grave cannot Praise thee,—The Living, The Living, He shall Praise thee, as I do this Day: Insisting on This; That the Servants of GOD, whilst Living in this World have many Opportunities and Advantages to Glorify GOD, which the Saints in Heaven have not: Of which he proposed That as the last Article; The Servants of GOD, while they are in this World, may Suffer for Him. And now, we must expect, Syr, that you will Confirm your Doctrine.