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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.
He was fortified with diverse Letters from Eminent Persons, Testifying and Celebrating his Indefatigable endeavours for the Good of the Country, and adding, While some with you may perhaps Wonder, that he has Obtained no more, we here, who have the Advantage of a better Prospect, wonder that he has done so much. But I shall Supersede all Citations from them, with only Producing a Copy of a Letter, Prepared by the Venerable Dr. Bates, and Signed by Twelve more; all of them Eminent Ministers in London; and such as the Doctor chose for that purpose. This was a Thing, which Mr. Mather, had never Desired or Proposed, but that Great Man did it, and had the Names of Ten Ministers to it, before ever Mr. Mather spoke one Word unto any of them about it: not could any Two of them ever be Prevailed withal to suspect any overdoing in any one expression of it.
He was fortified with diverse Letters from Eminent Persons, Testifying and Celebrating his Indefatigable endeavours for the Good of the Country, and adding, While some with you may perhaps Wonder, that he has Obtained no more, we here, who have the Advantage of a better Prospect, wonder that he has done so much. But I shall Supersede all Citations from them, with only Producing a Copy of a Letter, Prepard by the Venerable Dr. Bates, and Signed by Twelve more; all of them Eminent Ministers in London; and such as the Doctor chose for that purpose. This was a Thing, which Mr. Mather, had never Desir'd or Propos•d, but that Great Man did it, and had the Names of Ten Ministers to it, before ever Mr. Mather spoke one Word unto any of them about it: not could any Two of them ever be Prevailed withal to suspect any overdoing in any one expression of it.
The Letter is worth Preserving, if it were only for the Excellent Hand that Composed it; For, Caelum est Quicquid tam Docta Manus condidit. This it is.