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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Because those were only. Acts of Grace, whereas the Charter of New-England was a Contract between the King & the first Patentees: They Promised the King to Enlarge his Dominions, on their own Charges, Provided, that they and their Posterity might enjoy such and such Privileges: They had Performed their part; Now for the King to Deprive their Posterity of the Privileges therein Granted unto them, would carry a Face of Injustice in it. A Lord great in the Court, then told Mr. Mather, That his having Engaged the Bishop of Salisbury to appear for New-England, was the best Job he had done these Seven Years.
Because those were only. Acts of Grace, whereas the Charter of New-England was a Contract between the King & the first Patentees: They Promised the King to Enlarge his Dominions, on their own Charges, Provided, that they and their Posterity might enjoy such and such Privileges: They had Performed their part; Now for the King to Deprive their Posterity of the Privileges therein Granted unto them, would carry a Face of Injustice in it. A Lord great in the Court, then told Mr. Mather, That his having Engaged the Bishop of Salisbury to appear for New-England, was the best Jobb he had done these Seven Years.
§. 6. But a Greater than any of these, must not be left Unsolicited. Mr. Mather was by Madam Lockart Introduced unto the QUEEN, on Apr. 9. 1691. and she left him alone with her Majesty, that he might the more freely represent the case of New-England unto her.
§. 6. But a Greater than any of these, must not be left Unsollicited. Mr. Mather was by Madam Lockart Introduced unto the QUEEN, on Apr. 9. 1691. and she left him alone with her Majesty, that he might the more freely represent the case of New-England unto her.
The Discourse was, as followeth,