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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.
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.
A Peremptory Refusal, would have brought a Fatal Ruin on the Country; and the Blame would have been laid on those, who when they could not Obtain all they would have, would Refuse what they might have had.