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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
To the Illustrious UNIVERSITY, OF GLASCO.
Honourable, Venerable, and much Esteemed.
IT was not possible for me to be long undetermined, unto whom I should apply my self, in doing the part of a PARENTATOR, when I Remembered what Acknowledgements I owe, to the Learned Body, before which I am now appearing. Unto whom can I so agreeably present my FATHER as to my MOTHER; even to that Ancient and Famous University, whose Favours have so Cherished me, that they have rendered me as, A man whom his MOTHER Comforteth?
IT was not possible for me to be long undetermined, unto whom I should apply my self, in doing the part of a PARENTATOR, when I Remembred what Acknowledgments I owe, to the Learned Body, before which I am now appearing. Unto whom can I so agreeably present my FATHER as to my MOTHER; even to that Ancient and Famous University, whose Favours have so Cherished me, that they have rendered me as, A man whom his MOTHER Comforteth?
It is no small Intimation, how much the Truth which is according to Godliness is acknowledged in the Exemplary Church of SCOTLAND, That the Name and Worth of an OWEN is considered in it ⟨p. II⟩