Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

Let it not be cavilled, That he was now going, Extra Theologioe Sphoeram A Public Distress, a Common Danger, is enough to Legitimate his Listing for the Service. Yea, The Life of Churches was now at Stake. Churches were to be Served.—New-England knows how to take its Ministers upon occasion, & use them as Instruments of doing what none else could have done, to serve its Interests. Yea an Eminent Writer Propounds it, That the Reformed Churches ought always to have some or other of their Ministers, resident in the Courts of Princes, that so their Interests may not suffer, but be Preserved and Promoted there.

Let it not be cavi•led, That he was now going, Extra Theologioe Sphoeram A Public Distress, a Common Danger, is enough to Legitimate his Listing for the Service. Yea, The Life of Churches was now at Stake. Churches were to be Served.—New-England knows how to take its Ministers upon occasion, & use them as Instruments of doing what none else could have done, to serve its Interests. Yea an Eminent Writer Propounds it, That the Reformed Churches ought always to have some or other of their Ministers, res•dent in the Courts of Princes, that so their Interests may not suffer, but be Preserved and Promoted there.

A sort of Panic Terror fell now upon the Adversary. Something must be done to stop the Intended Voyage. Randolph must be the Tool. A copy of his Forged Letter, being sent over hither, Mr. Mather in a Letter to the Person that received it, Intimated some Reasons he had for a Suspicion that Randolph (with a Brother of his) might be one Author of the Forgery. Tho' the Villain knew himself to be so, and his Good Fame was not worth half a Farthing; yet he ⟨p. 106⟩now Arrested Mr. Mather in an Action of Defamation, and Five Hundred Pounds Damage. And it was a thing little short of Miraculous, that considering the Tricks and Frauds, wherewith every thing was then Managed, the Point was not gained. But the Good Old way was taken; much Prayer was made unto the Glorious Lord from whom every Man has his Judgment: and the Day whereon the Court sat, was a Day of Prayer with some Societies of Christians, for a Good Issue of the Perplexing matter. Behold, The whole Jury cleared Mr. Mather, and ordered the Plaintiff to Pay Costs of Court.