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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 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!
He commonly spent Sixteen Hours of the Four and Twenty, in his Laborious Hive! Being very much of Thomas Akempis his Mind, Nusquam Requiem invenio nisi in Libro et in claustro. He was There, some thought even to a Fault. More of his Pastoral Visits were wished for.
§. 2. Unto a Good Man there once came that Message from Heaven; Thy Prayers and thy Alms are come up for a Memorial before GOD. This Good Mans did so! His Devotions towards GOD, were accompanied with his Benignities towards Men; And these Two, filled his Life with Sacrifices; and assured him a share in the Royal Priesthood. It was the Doctors Persuasion, That though our GOD is to have our All used for Him, there was a Special Portion of his Revenues, which was more Immediately and more Explicitly to be Devoted unto Pious Uses: A Special Portion to be so set apart for GOD, and be so the Lords, that it would be a Sacrilege to Spend