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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 behold, while the Charter Bill was Depending, the Convention-Parliament was Unexpectedly Prorogued, and then Dissolved; and Mr. Mather found the Sisyphoean Labour of a whole Year come to nothing.
§. 4. The Disposition of the next Parliament soon appeared such, that nothing in the Favour of New-England was to be Expected there. Mr. Mather then made some Essays, to see if by a writ of Error in Judgment, the case relating to the Massachuset-Colony might be brought out of Chancery into the Kings Bench; but this Attempt ⟨p. 124⟩also was Defeated by so Surprising a Providence, that Mr. Mather Declared upon it; Never did I see a more Signal Hand of Heaven in any matter, than in Disappointing all Hopes, for the Obtaining the so much Desired full Restitution of all our Charter Privileges, by a Reversion of the Judgment Entered against them.
§. 4. The Disposition of the next Parliament soon appeared such, that nothing in the Favour of New-England was to be Expected there. Mr. Mather then made some Essays, to see if by a writ of Error in Judgment, the case relating to the Massachuset-Colony might be brought out of Chancery into the Kings Bench; but this Attempt ⟨p. 124⟩also was Defeated by so Surprizing a Providence, that Mr. Mather Declared upon it; Never did I see a more Signal Hand of Heaven in any matter, than in Disappointing all Hopes, for the Obtaining the so much Desired full Restitution of all our Charter Privileges, by a Reversion of the Judgment Entred against them.
All Hopes of Obtaining the Restoration of the Old Charter being at an End, there was no way left, but a Flight unto the Royal Favour; For though it was not in the Kings Power to Reverse the Judgment against the Old Charter, yet His Majesty had power to Re-incorporate his good Subjects there, and grant them a NEW CHARTER, that should contain all the Old, with New and more Ample Privileges; Without which, the Old would not have seen Sufficient.