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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.
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.
The Lawyers declared, That a passive Submission here, had nothing of a Surrender in it; for here was nothing of Hand and Seal in the Case. Besides, Judgment was already Entered and Recorded against the Old Charter. And a taking up with the New Charter, did not render the Colony uncapable of recovering their Old Privileges if there should be a favourable Opportunity to Solicit for it.
The Lawyers declared, That a passive Submission here, had nothing of a Surrender in it; for here was nothing of Hand and Seal in the Case. Besides, Judgment was already Entred and Recorded against the Old Charter. And a taking up with the New Charter, did not render the Colony uncapable of recovering their Old Privileges if there should be a favourable Opportunity to Sollicit for it.
At present, there was no Possibility of getting a Reversion of the Judgment against the Old Charter.