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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
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REMARKABLES OF Dr. Increase Mather. › Article 29: ARTICLE XXIX. A Good President.
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.
When he went over to England, he carried his Care of his beloved College with him. Among other Expressions of it (whereof some have been related,) he Procured some valuable Donations to it. Yea, it was His Acquaintance with, and His Proposal to, That Good-Spirited Man, and Lover of all Good Men, Mr. THOMAS HOLLIS, that Introduced his Benefactions unto that College; to which his Incomparable Bounty has anon flowed unto such a Degree, as to render him the Greatest Benefactor it ever had in the World.
When he went over to England, he carried his Care of his beloved College with him. Among other Expressions of it (whereof some have been related,) he Procured some valuable Donations to it. Yea, it was His Acquaintance with, and His Proposal to, That Good-Spirited Man, and Lover of all Good Men, Mr. THOMAS HOLLIS, that Introduced his Benefactions unto that College; to which his Incomparable Bounty has anon flow'd unto such a Degree, as to render him the Greatest Benefactor it ever had in the World.
Upon his Return to New-England, one of the first Things he did, was to Obtain from the General Assembly of the Province, (what he was in England advised unto, when he began there to move towards Obtaining a Charter from the King for that purpose) An Act for the Incorporation of the College, upon a larger Foundation than the ⟨p. 171⟩Former Settlement. By this Act, The College was enabled among other Things, to Confer Degrees, which could not by its former Charter be pretended to; and Particularly, to Create Bachelors, and Doctors of Theology. At this Time, and while that Act was yet in Force, this University (as now it was) thought it their Duty to Present unto their President, a Diploma for a Doctorate, under their Seal, with the Hands of the Fellows annexed; which being the First and the Sale Instance of such a Thing done in the whole English America,
Upon his Return to New-England, one of the first Things he did, was to Obtain from the General Assembly of the Province, (what he was in England advis'd unto, when he began there to move towards Obtaining a Charter from the King for that purpose) An Act for the Incorporation of the College, upon a larger Foundation than the