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

Mr. Mather went on with his Preparations for his Voyage; and had his Mind more and more Irradiated with a Strong Persuasion, That GOD would give him to find Things in England, in such […] State, as that he should have an Opportunity to do Special Service for His People here. Yea, he went so far in it, as to Write these Marvellous Words upon it;—I know, it will be so; For Thou, O Lord GOD, hast told me, that it will be so! And the Truth is, if he had not had some such Faith as this, to have Inspired him with an uncommon Courage, a Person of his Prudence would never have Exposed himself, as he did on a Thousand Accounts in his present Undertaking.

Mr. Mather went on with his Praeparations for his Voyage; and had his Mind more and more Irradiated with a Strong Perswasion, That GOD would give him to find Things in England, in such 〈…〉 State, as that he should have an Opportunity to do Special Service for His People here. Yea, he went so far in it, as to Write these Marvellous Words upon it;—I know, it will be so; For Thou, O Lord GOD, hast told me, that it will be so! And the Truth is, if he had not had some such Faith as this, to have Inspired him with an uncommon Courage, a Person of his Prudence would never have Exposed himself, as he did on a Thousand Accounts in his present Undertaking.

He Waited on Sr. Edmond Andross, the Governor and Oppressor of New-England; and acquainted him, That he designed a Voyage for London. He also gave the Country notice of his Voyage, in a Sermon at the Great Lecture; on Exod. XXXIII. 15. If thy Presence go not with ⟨p. 107⟩us, carry us not up from hence. Hereupon Randolph again, Assisted by one 'Pothecary Bullivant, a Memorable Justice [and something else!] Privately sent an Officer to Arrest him once more (such the Equity of those Times!) upon the former Action of Defamation. But it fell out, that he was just then under the Operation of a more wholesome Physic, than what that 'Pothecary had sent him; and so the Officer was Ignorantly denied Admittance. The 'Pothecary as Ignorantly reported, That Mr. Mather was Arrested; and the Report flying like Lightening about the Solicitous Town, it soon reached Mr. Mathers Ears; who then kept upon his Guard.