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

To the Much Honoured General Court Assembled at Boston in New-England. Much Honoured Gentlemen. The Restoring of your Charter, upon which the Security and Public Good of Your ⟨p. 158⟩Colony Depends, We Congratulate with as Joyful Affections, as with Tender Resentments, We Condoled the Deprivation of it. When Your and Our State was in Appearance Desolate beyond Humane Power and Counsel to redress, Then Deliverance came from above: And in our Deep Darkness, the Day Spring from on High visited us. We must humbly Admire and Adore the Glorious Author of that Blessed Work: And we cannot but Pay our Grateful Respects, and Dutiful Subjection to His chosen Servant, our Sovereign, the Happy Instrument of it. All the Colours of Language are not Lively and Grateful enough to express His Benefits to us. He has the Honour of Establishing our Religion at Home, and gives us Hopes of Restoring it abroad, in places from whence it has been Unrighteously and Cruelly expelled. Some among You may Wonder, there has been so long Delay before Your Charter was finished, but if you consider the Torrent of Affairs in Court after the Late Revolution, it will Lessen the Wonder. The Truth is, Your Affairs were so Difficult, & Thorny, that the Rare Union of the Wisdom of the Serp nt, & the Innocence of the Dove, was requisite in the Commissioners managing of it. A Peremptory Refusal of any Charter, but of an Uniform Tenor with the First, had been like too Strong a Medicine, that Exasperates the Disease instead of Curing it. In Affairs of great Importance, tis Wisdom Maturely to Deliberate, and consider Conditional Events, and ⟨p. 159⟩by the foresight of Inconveniences that will otherwise follow, to accept of such things as are Best with respect to their Circumstances. We must therefore give this True Testimony of our much Esteemed and Beloved Brother, Mr. Increase Mather That with Inviolate Integrity, excellent Prudence, and Unfainting Diligence, he hath Managed the great Business Committed to His Trust. As he is Instructed in the School of Heaven, to Minister in the Affairs of the Soul, so he is furnished with a Talent to Transact Affairs of State. His Proceedings have been with that Caution and Circumspection, as is Correspondent to the Weight of his Commission;

To the Much Honoured General Court Assembled at Boston in New-England. Much Honoured Gentlemen. THe Restoring of your Charter, upon which the Security and Public Good of Your