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

Besides what was sent to me out of New-England, I Expended upwards of Two Hundred Pounds of my own Personal Estate, out of Love to that People. And I did for their sakes, borrow of a Merchant in London, above Three Hundred Pounds more, which it was Tow Years before Care was taken for the Repayment of it. The last Year, some who were hearty Well-wishers to New-England, wrote thither, That they must consider, how much depended on a suitable Supply; yet for more than a Twelvemonth, not one Penny was returned; so that I was necessitated, either to suffer a Ruin to come upon the Country, or else must borrow Money again to Serve them; which I did, and engaged all the Estate I have in the World, for the Repayment thereof.

Some time after this, there was Published a Venomous and Malicious Libel, by a mean Hand, instigated in part from the Invisible World, and well worthy to be Recommended unto the Rebuke of the Lord, which was Entitled, More Wonders of the Invisible World. The Conscience of Duty to the Ninth Commandment of my GOD, as well as the Fifth, obliges me to Declare, (which I hope, I may d• without any Railing Accusation) That the Book is full of Gross, Base, Notorious LIES; and has been Unanswerably Convicted of being so; and they who take their Accounts of New-England from it, follow but an Ignis fatuus. On the occasion of the Slanders uttered in that foolish Book, Mr. Mather gave under his Hand unto some Honest Men, who Published a Victorious Answer to them, an Instrument, which had these among other Passages.

Some time after this, there was Published a Venemous and Malicious Libel, by a mean Hand, instigated in part from the Invisible World, and well worthy to be Recommended unto the Rebuke of the Lord, which was Entituled, More Wonders of the Invisible World. The Conscience of Duty to the Ninth Commandment of my GOD, as well as the Fifth, obliges me to Declare, (which I hope, I may d• without any Railing Accusation) That the Book is full of Gross, Base, Notorious LYES; and has been Unanswerably Convicted of being so; and they who take their Accounts of New-England from it, follow but an Ignis fatuus. On the occasion of the Slanders uttered in that foolish Book, Mr. Mather gave under his Hand unto some Honest Men, who Published a Victorious Answer to them, an Instrument, which had these among other Passages.