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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 27: ARTICLE XXVII. The Returning Dove.
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.
Mr. Mather, upon a Review of his Agency, was now able to use those Words, As Day and Night have seen it; so I can and do Appeal to Heaven and Earth, that I have Served the People of my Country, with all Fidelity, and unto the Very utmost of my Capacity. And so, with an easy mind in himself, but great Expressions of Affection in his Friends at his taking his ultimum Vale of them, he left London, on Mar. 7. 1692. and Sr. William Phips, then having received the Royal Commission for the Government of New-England fetched him in a Yacht from Southampton, to Cows in the Isle of Wight, where the Ship lay in which he was to take his Passage There •e Preached both parts of the Day; which he afterwards had Opportunity to do in Dartmouth, and in Plymouth.
Mr. Mather, upon a Review of his Agency, was now able to use those Words, As Day and Night have seen it; so I can and do Appeal to Heaven and Earth, that I have Served the People of my Country, with all Fidelity, and unto the Very utmost of my Capacity. And so, with an easy mind in himself, but great Expressions of Affection in his Friends at his taking his ultimum Vale of them, he left London, on Mar. 7. 1692. and Sr. William Phips, then having received the Royal Commission for the Government of New-England fetch'd him in a Yacht from Southampton, to Cowes in the Isle of Wight, where the Ship lay in which he was to take his Passage There •e Preached both parts of the Day; which he afterwards had Opportunity to do in Dartmouth, and in Plymouth.
On Mar. 29. 1692. he with the Companions of his Voyage, left Plymouth; and had a Comfortable Passage for New-England, under the Convoy of the None-such Frigate. Instead of their falling into the Hands of their Foes, which was much feared by their Friends a French prize fell into their Hands. And they had also a notable Deliverance from what they commonly call, A Tartar: For spying some Ships which they took for French Merchant-men, their Convoy made away for them; until contrary Winds compelled them to leave the chase. But on the Day following, a French Vessel which they took, informed them, That they were Four French Men