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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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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.
Mather. Sir, If he would but duly attend to Your Majesties Declaration, the People there would be better Satisfied
Mather. Syr, If he would but duely attend to Your Majesties Declaration, the People there would be better Satisfied
KING. Does he not do That?
Ma. There have been some of Your Subjects Fined and Imprisoned, because from a Tenderness of Conscience they Scrupled, Swearing by the Book. I brought an Address of Thanks to Your Majesty, from a Number of our Congregations. I believe all the Congregations in the Country would have Concurred in the Address, had not the Ministers been Discouraged by Sr. Edmond Andros, who in a menacing way, bid them, have a Care what they did; And One of the Council with him there told us, we should make no Addresses to the King without their L••ve. The Ministers of Boston proposed unto their Congregations, that they might keep a Day of Thanksgiving, to Bless GOD for what they have enjoyed by Your Majesties Declaration. But he sent for them, and bid them keep the Day at their Peril, and assured them, that if they did, he would clap a Guard on their Persons and their Churches too; so that the intended Thanksgiving was Diverted.
Ma. There have been some of Your Subjects Fined and Imprisoned, because from a Tenderness of Conscience they Scrupled, Swearing by the Book. I brought an Address of Thanks to Your Majesty, from a Number of our Congregations. I believe all the Congregations in the Country would have Concurr'd in the Address, had not the Ministers been Discouraged by Sr. Edmond Andros, who in a menacing way, bid them, have a Care what they did; And One of the Council with him there told us, we should make no Addresses to the King without their Lve. The Ministers of Boston proposed unto their Congregations, that they might keep a Day of Thanksgiving, to Bless GOD for what they have enjoy'd by Your Majesties Declaration. But he sent for them, and bid them keep the Day at their Peril, and assured them, that if they did, he would clap a Guard on their Persons and their Churches too; so that the intended Thansgiving was Diverted.