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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.
§. 9. NOW came on a Strange Question: Whether the Agents for the Country should Submit unto this NEW CHARTER? Or, in hopes of Obtaining at some time or other a Reversion of the Judgment against the OLD CHARTER, Signify to the Ministers of State, that they had rather have NO CHARTER at all, than such an one as was now Proposed!
On this occasion, Mr. Mather advised with as many Unprejudiced and Judicious Persons as he could; wi•h Noblemen, Gentlemen, Divines, and Lawyers; and with the Best▪ Friends New-England had in the World. They ALL agreed, That it was a Duty, to accept of the Offered CHARTER; And some greatly wondered at them ⟨p. 138⟩that should make any Question of it: and were almost ready to say of them, as Plato in his Philebus does of some who made a Question of another matter; Let them be Committed unto the Care of some Learned Physician, who by wholesome Physic may restore their Heads unto a better Temper.
On this occasion, Mr. Mather advised with as many Unprejudiced and Judicious Persons as he could; wi•h Nobl•men, Gentlemen, Divines, and Lawyers; and with the Best▪ Friends New-England had in the World. They ALL agreed, That it was a Duty, to accept of the Offered CHARTER; And some greatly wondred at them ⟨p. 138⟩that should make any Question of it: and were almost ready to say of them, as Plato in his Philebus does of some who made a Question of another matter; Let them be Committed unto the Care of some Learned Physician, who by wholesome Physic may restore their Heads unto a better Temper.