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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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REMARKABLES OF Dr. Increase Mather. › Article 32: ARTICLE XXXII. The Period of the Pilgrimage.
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.
In September 1720. he Preached an awful Sermon [from Amos III. 7.] on this Doctrine; When GOD has an Holy purpose to Visit His People with Great Judgments, He uses to give them Notice and Warning of it before Hand. In the Conclusion he expressly foretold, First, That an heavy Judgment was Impending over Boston, that would speedily be Executed. And then, That the Churches of the Country were near to some shaking Dispensations. He added; My Brethren, I take no Pleasure in Testifying unto you of Evil Days. But when the Word of the Lord is like a Fire in a Mans Bones, there must be something said, that may Awaken you out of your Security. Now, within a few Months after this, the Small-Pox was brought into Boston, and within as few Months more the Besom of Destruction swept away near a Thousand People. And how Strangely was way made for the Destroying Angle to do his Execution!
In September 1720. he Preached an awful Sermon [from Amos III. 7.] on this Doctrine; When GOD has an Holy purpose to Visit His People with Great Judgments, He uses to give them Notice and Warning of it before Hand. In the Conclusion he exprestly foretold, First, That an heavy Judgment was Impending over Boston, that would speedily be Executed. And then, That the Churches of the Country were near to some shaking Dispensations. He added; My Brethren, I take no Pleasure in Testifying unto you of Evil Days. But when the Word of the Lord is like a Fire in a Mans Bones, there must be something said, that may Awaken you out of your Security. Now, within a few Months after this, the Small-Pox was brought into Boston, and within as few Months more the Besome of Destruction swept away near a Thousand People. And how Strangely was way made for the Destroying Angle to do his Execution!
But let me not Anticipate. I am saying, That until Four score the Doctor held it unto Admiration! ⟨p. 199⟩And on the Day of his Attaining to Fourscore, he Preached a Sermon full of Light and Life, on those Words,