Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

How did the good People far and near, Discover even a growth of their Appetite, for the Enjoyment of as much as might be Obtained ⟨p. 197⟩from him! The Churches would not permit an Ordination to be carried on without him, as long as he was able to Travel in a Coach unto them.

How did the good People far and near, Discover even a growth of their Appetite, for the Enjoyment of as much as might be Obtained ⟨p. 197⟩from him! The Churches would not permitt an Ordination to be carried on without him, as long as he was able to Trayel in a Coach unto them.

Though in the Prefaces of the useful Books which he now Published, he Repeated an Ungrantable Request unto his Friends, No longer to Pray for his Life; They only Prayed the more for it. When he had finished Forty nine Years of his Public Ministry, he Preached a Sermon full of Rare and Rich Thoughts upon, A Jubilee; And he requested for a Dismission from any further Public Labours. His Flock Prized them too much, to hear of That: But anon, when they saw the Proper Time, for it, that they might render his Old Age as easy as might be to him, they Wisely and Kindly Voted it, That the Labours of the Pulpit should be expected from him, only when he should find himself able and inclined for them.—It would be no strange thing, if while he wanted yet some Years to reach Fourscore, there should be found some little thing that might carry something of Senile Weakness in it. But, he held it unto Four score in a Wonderful Exercise of his Intellectual Powers, and with Public Ministrations to very Great Congregations, which his Ministry continued still to give the greatest Satisfaction to. A Treatise, which he Published about this Time, concerning An Hoary Head found in the Way of Righteousness, notably Described what he was himself, and as notably Declared, what he was yet able to do. He continued Preaching to vast Assemblies; and ⟨p. 198⟩