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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.
However much Prayer to GOD on the behalf of His Persecuted Servant, was made not only by his own Flock, but also by many other Pious People up and down the Country. He himself also made his Vows, That if GOD would Save him from the Evil! Designed against him, he would (His CHRIST helping of him) endeavour to do yet more for His Glory, than he had yet ever done in his Life before. And at the Bottom, he Wrote; My GOD hath Saved me.
A Gracious GOD Over-ruled the Spirits at Whitehall. The Thoughts of giving any further ⟨p. 95⟩Trouble to Mr. Mather were laid aside, for the Present. Probably the Forgery might appear too plain unto them. They might have a View of a more Effectual way by and by to take him off. Randolph missed of this Bloody Purpose. Wretch, I shall have a further Occasion to mention thee!
A Gracious GOD Over-ruled the Spirits at Whitehall. The Thoughts of giving any further ⟨p. 95⟩Trouble to Mr. Mather were laid aside, for the Present. Probably the Forgery might appear too plain unto them. They might have a View of a more Effectual way by'nd by to take him off. Randolph miss'd of this Bloody Purpose. Wretch, I shall have a further Occasion to mention thee!
However, that Father of Lies, (as one stiles him) the Infamous Le Strange, did in several of his Execrable Observators Publish as much as he thought fit of that Forged Letter, with his wretched Annotations upon it, that so Mr. Mather might have the Honour of Cruel Mockings all over the Nation. And, I Pray, what is there in Death itself more uneasy to a Great Mind,than what he feels in the Indignities under which he must Complain, They Laugh me to Scorn! And Sr. Richard Dutten, with the Satisfaction proper to such Spirits, brought a Copy of it unto Barbados, and scattered it all over the Caribbee Islands, that so Mr. Mather might be made the Song of the Drunkard, and have a further share in the Allatrations, which the Bright Wits of those Islands use to treat him with. He Observed, That now the Book of PSALMS, was what he could more feelingly, and with more Application than ever in his Life, Converse withal. Such Passages, as, Princes have sat and spoke against me.—I am filled with the Contempt of them that are at Ease.—The Proud have had me greatly in Derision.—They have forged a Lie against me.—They have digged Pitts for me.—The Wicked have Waited for-me to Destroy me.—Deliver me not up to the Will of my Enemies.—