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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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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.
ARTICLE XXXI. The Latter-Days.
ARTICLE XXXI. The Lattter-Days.
The Doctor still had many Opportunities for Special Service continued unto him, and he approved himself a Prudent and Faithful Steward of his Talents. He grew in the Exercises of Repentance and of Patience, and of all PIETY, and Communion with GOD; and in the Painful Discharge of his Ministry; and Watchfully laid hold on all Opportunities to bear Testimonies for the Cause of GOD, and of His People, as the matter might Require. But if I cut the Chapter into little Sections, it may add something to the Relish of it.
THe Doctor still had many Opportunities for Special Service continued unto him, and he approved himself a Prudent and Faithful Steward of his Talents. He grew in the Exercises of Repentance and of Patience, and of all PIETY, and Communion with GOD; and in the Painful Discharge of his Ministry; and Watchfully laid hold on all Opportunities to bear Testimonies for the Cause of GOD, and of His People, as the matter might Require. But if I cut the Chapter into little Sections, it may add something to the Relish of it.
§. 1. His Purpose and manner of Life, is Exactly Described, in a Book about Holiness, which was Written by him, Twenty Years before he Died. In that Book he offers Admirable Rules for ⟨p. 181⟩Growth towards a Perfection of Holiness in the Fear of GOD: which he Introduces with saying, I shall not set before you Directions impossible to be followed, or heavy Burdens which I would be loth myself to touch. No, we saw his Rules Livelily Exemplified. But his Daily Course may be enquired after. Besides his Patient Continuance, in that stroke of Well-doing, which lay in his course of setting apart whole Days for the Religion of the Closet, and which he continued until the last Year of his Life was coming on: His Daily Course was This: And what a Grateful Spectacle to Angels in it!