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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 26: ARTICLE XXVI. The History of the NEW CHARTER.
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.
But, Reader, if thou art not in a Time or a Frame, for the Reading of Civil matters, Turn over a few Leaves, and Skip the Chapter.
Perhaps, the Partitioning of the Story into Sections may give the Reader some necessary Breathing-Spaces.
§ 1. England made and saw an Happy REVOLUTION. And New-England upon, (and almost before) the Advice of it, made as Just and Fair an One, in Conformity to it; and not Resisting an Ordinance of GOD, but Restraining ⟨p. 118⟩a Cursed Violation of His Ordinance, Imprisoned Sr. Edmond Andros, and his Accomplices.
In the mean time, the Prince of Orange Arriving to London, and he with the Princess, being soon after, Chosen and Crowned, KING and QUEEN, of the British Empire, Mr. Mather had a New Field, and a Large one, for special Service offered him.