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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
I am also told, that his great Friends Complain, That I spent the Country a great deal of Money, during my Agency in their behalf. These little Men know not what it is, to attend in the Courts of Kings for Four Years together: if they did, they would not make that Objection And sure I am, that when I did, at the desire of many Principal Persons in the Country, undertake a Voyage for England, in April. 1688. People in this Province would have given Ten times more than what I Expended in their Service, on condition they might have Restored and Confirmed unto them, what they