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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.
How much of its Trade had Boston Lost? What an Insignificant Atom had the Colony been Squeezed into! If they had Exerted Powers, without which they could not have Comfortably or Tolerably Subsisted, Perpetual Complaints would have been made against them. Its probable They would have been at more Charge every Year, to answer Complaints, than they would have been to Support their Governor. And how long must they have lain under their Impotency, Saying, Sir, I have no Man to help me!
How much of its Trade had Boston Lost? What an Insignificant Atom had the Colony been Squeez•d into! If they had Exerted Powers, without which they could not have Comfortably or Tolerably Subsisted, Perpetual Complaints would have been made against them. Its probable They would have been at more Charge every Year, to answer Complaints, than they would have been to Support their Governour. And how long must they have lain under their Impotency, Saying, Syr, I have no Man to help me!
Besides all this; If the Agents of the Colony, had signified unto the Ministers of State, that they had rather have No Charter at all, than This which the King had now granted, Who would have been Immediately made the Governor? Who the Lieutenant-Governor? Who the most of the Counsellors? And the Governor would have had Power, as in the other Plantations, to Appoint General Officers. What the Consequence of This at that Angry Time? Dica• Neo-Eb•racum!
Besides all this; If the Agents of the Colony, had signified unto the Ministers of State, that they had rather have No Charter at all, than This which the King had now granted, Who would have been Immediately made the Governour? Who the Lieutenant-Governour? Who the most of the Counsellers? And the Governour would have had Power, as in the other Plantations, to Appoint General Officers. What the Consequence of This at that Angry Time? Dica• Neo-Eb•racum!