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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.
Now the Massachuset-Colony is made a Province, the General Assembly hath, with the Kings Approbation, a Power in New-England, like what the King and Parliament have in England; and may do abundance of Important Things, which could not be done by virtue of the Former Charter: And the Country may also look for more Protection and Assistance from England, than under That.—
Now the Massachuset-Colony is made a Province, the General Assembly hath, with the Kings Approbation, a Power in New-England, like what the King and Parliament have in England; and may do abundance of Important Things, which could not be done by vertue of the Former Charter: And the Country may also look for more Protection and Assistence from England, than under That.—
Suppose a Stork should get a Commission for the Government; What can such a Governor do? He cannot, without the Consent of the Council ⟨p. 142⟩chosen by the Representatives of the People, appoint Sheriffs to pack Juries for him, o• Judges that will Displease GOD rather than him. He can't give any Man any Disturbance for his Religion, without Violating the Magna Charta of New-England. He can't exert any of the Violences, under which there were heard, The Groans of the Plantations in th• Days of K. James, II. When, the People of New England would have given, who can say, how many Thousands of Pounds, for such a Charter as they now have before them?
Suppose a Stork should get a Commission for the Government; What can such a Governour do? He cannot, without the Consent of the Council ⟨p. 142⟩chosen by the Representatives of the People, appoint Sheriffs to pack Juries for him, o• Judges that will Displease GOD rather than him. He can't give any Man any Disturbance for his Religion, without Violating the Magna Charta of New-England. He can't exert any of the Violences, under which there were heard, The Groans of the Plantations in th Days of K.