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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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In the Morning repairing to his Study, (where his Custom was to sit up very late, even until Midnight, and perhaps after it) he deliberately Read a Chapter, and made a Prayer, and them plied what of Reading and Writing he had before him. At Nine a Clock he came down, and Read a Chapter and made a Prayer, with his Family. He then returned unto the Work of the Study. Coming down to Dinner, he quickly went up again, and begun the Afternoon with another Prayer. There he went on with the Work of the Study till the Evening. Then with another Prayer he again went unto his Father; after which he did more at the Work of the Study. At Nine a Clock he came down to his Family-Sacrifices. Then he went up again to the Work of the Study; which anon he Concluded with another Prayer; And so he betook himself unto his Repose.
In the Prayers of the Day, what there fell short of the Number, in the Hundred and Sixty fourth Verse of the Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm, was doubtless made up with Numberless Ejaculations.—Of such Ejaculatory Prayers, no doubt, is to be understood, what Antiquity reports of the Apostle Bartholomew, That he Prayed one Hundred Times in a Day; and of one Paulus, That he did it Three Hundred Times. I can't say, That this our Eusebius had so many Ejaculatory Prayers as these come to, But he was the Happy Man, that had his Quiver full of them!
In the Prayers of the Day, what there fell short of the Number, in the Hundred and Sixty fourth Verse of the Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm, was doubtless made up with Numberless Ejaculations.—Of such Ejaculatory Prayers, no doubt, is to be understood, what Antiquity reports of the Apostle Bartholomew, That he Pray'd one Hundred Times in a Day; and of one Paulus, That he did it Three Hundred Times. I can't say, That this our Eusebius had so many Ejaculatory Prayers as these come to, But he was the Happy Man, that had his Quiver full of them!