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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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But having mentioned a Book (that is to say, The Magnalia CHRISTI Americana,) whereto this may pass for an Appendix, I think I have here a proper Occasion to take some Notice of the Fate which it has met withal. For the very same thing ⟨p. vii⟩in the Heavens above us, is by some called, The Milky Way, and by others called, The Crooked Serpent.
But having mentioned a Book (that is to say, The Magnalia CHRISTI Americana,) whereto this may pass for an Appendix, I think I have here a proper Occasion to take some Notice of the Fate which it has mett withal. For the very same thing ⟨p. vii⟩in the Heavens above us, is by some called, The Milky Way, and by others called, The Crooked Serpent.
The BOOK being Written with a Variety of Projection and Contrivance, to serve that Real, Vital, Solid PIETY, which seems now almost wholly to have left the Earth, [O Glaucha, Do thou yet retain it!] and give some Account of Men and Things, which cannot be given without Exposing the Persecuting Spirit of some that Hate to be Reformed; I could not be so weak, as to Imagine, That Impious People, or such as are no better than mere Formalists in Religion, would forbear their Invectives against it, and their endeavours to bring all possible Contempt upon it. The Introduction to the History Sufficiently foretold it, and also Signified how much the Breast of the Author, Trebly Oak'd and Brassed, was prepared for it.
The BOOK being Written with a Variety of Projection and Contrivance, to serve that Real, Vital, Solid PIETY, which seems now almost wholly to have left the Earth, [O Glaucha, Do thou yet retain it!] and give some Account of Men and Things, which cannot be given without Exposing the Persecuting Spirit of some that Hate to be Reformed; I could not be so weak, as to Imagine, That Impious People, or such as are no better than meer Formalists in Religion, would forbear their Invectives against it, and their endeavours to bring all possible Contempt upon it. The Introduction to the History Sufficiently foretold it, and also Signified how much the Breast of the Author, Trebly Oak'd and Brass'd, was prepared for it.