Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

Upon the whole, The Persons of the most Consummate Wisdom that Mr. Mather could consult withal, agreed in This; Take your NEW-CHARTER and be Thankful for it! The most sensible Men added, That as Poor a Charter as wanton and froward Minds might think it, if any People of Sway in the Country should be so under the Sting of an Hornet as to do those Rash and Mad Things, which may procure the Loss of the Privilege• which it brings unto them, the rest of the People will certainly have little Honour for the Memory of the Unhappy Men, who have been the Instruments of bringing such Mischiefs upon them. Among the rest, that Sagacious and Ingenious Person President Bond of Barbados (then at London) said unto him: What would not we in our Islands give for such a Charter as yours And the famous Mr. Matthew Mead then wrote! unto the Person who is now Writing about the Faithful Agent, If Men Reward not his Great Work, and Labour of Love, I am sure, GOD will. What he has done has not been without ⟨p. 144⟩the Counsel and Advice of the Best Friends New-England has: Parliament-men, Lawyers and Ministers.

Upon the whole, The Persons of the most Consummate Wisdom that Mr. Mather could consult withal, agreed in This; Take your NEW-CHARTER and be Thankful for it! The most sensible Men added, That as Poor a Charter as wanton and froward Minds might think it, if any People of Sway in the Country should be so under the Sting of an Hornet as to do those Rash and Mad Things, which may procure the Loss of the Privilege• which it brings unto them, the rest of the People will certainly have little Honour for the Memory of the Unhappy Men, who have been the Instruments of bringing such Mischeifs upon them. Among the rest, that Sagacious and Ingenious Person Praesident Bond of Barbadoes (then at London) said unto him: What would not we in our Islands give for such a Charter as yours And the famous Mr. Matthew Mead then wrote! unto the Person who is now Writing about the Faithful Agent, If Men Reward not his Great Work, and Labour of Love, I am sure, GOD will. What he has done has not been without ⟨p. 144⟩the Counsel and Advice of the Best Friends New-England has: Parliament-men, Lawyers and Ministers.