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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.
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Whitings in Copt-hall Court, was by what she saw in him, and heard from him so brought home to GOD, that afterwards, when she was Married; she gave the World a lasting Testimony of her Gratitude, in the Remembrance of the Good which her Converted Soul had received from him. He likewise rarely Omitted Preaching on the Lords-Days: for which in Honour to his Country he would accept of no Gratuities; but Obliged the Ministers to do Good Offices for his Country. Once a Month, he Preached with Dr. Bates, at Hackney: who though he were a Person of so Catholic a Spirit, had one of the Smallest and Purest Churches about the City; with which he chose to have his more Constant Communion at the Holy Table: And the Doctor told his People, That if Mr. Mather might be detained in England, he had rather have him joined with him in the Pastoral Charge, than any man in the World.
Whitings in Copt-hall Court, was by what she saw in him, and heard from him so brought home to GOD, that afterwar•s, when she was Married; she gave the World a lasting Testimony of her Gratitude, in the Remembrance of the Good which her Converted Soul had received from him. He likewise rarely Omitted Preaching on the Lords-Days: for which in Honour to his Country he would accept of no Gratuities; but Obliged the Ministers to do Good Offices for his Country. Once a Month, he Preached with Dr. Bates, at Hackney: who though he were a Person of so Catholic a Spirit, had one of the Smallest and Purest Churches about the City; with which he chose to have his more Constant Communion at the Holy Table: And the Doctor told his People, That if Mr. Mather might be detained in England, he had rather have him joined with him in the Pastoral Charge, than any man in the World.
§. 12. But, shall we go on to enquire, whether the People of New-England, were the only People, that were served by him? No, There was a Special Service, of a greater extent, wherein His Glorious Lord Employed and Honoured him. There was an Happy UNION accomplished between those Two Religious Parties, which go under the Names of Presbyterian, ⟨p. 148⟩