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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.
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.
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, Ezek. XVI. 5. The Day when thou wast Born. They that wrote after him, have Printed it. The, Mens et Ratio et Consilium, which are by Cicero mentioned as the Prerogatives of Old Age, were found in him to an uncommon Degree. On very many Accounts he might have said, as old Georgias did, Nihil habeo propter quod Senectutem meam accusem; Yea, as a Better Man, Old Drusius did, Senectus mihi melior quam ipsa Juventus. But that which most of all gave him a Comfortable Old Age, was what Calvin who did not Live to Old Age, well pitches on, as the chiefest Comfort of Old Age: Tenendum est, proecipuam partem Bonae Senectutis, in bona Conscientia, Animoque sereno ac Tranquillio consistere: A Good Heart, filled with the Love and Peace of GOD, and the Soul of an Abraham.
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, Ezek. XVI. 5. The Day when thou wast Born. They that wrote after him, have Printed it. The, Mens et Ratio et Consilium, which are by Cicero mention'd as the Praerogatives of Old Age, were found in him to an uncommon Degree. On very many Accounts he might have said, as old Georgias did, Nihil habeo propter quod Senectutem meam accusem; Yea, as a Better Man, Old Drusius did, Senectus mihi melior quam ipsa Juventus. But that which most of all gave him a Comfortable Old Age, was what Calvin who did not Live to Old Age, well pitches on, as the chiefest Comfort of Old Age: Tenendum est, proecipuam partem Bonae Senectutis, in bona Conscientia, Animoque sereno ac Tranquillio consistere: A Good Heart, fill'd with the Love and Peace of GOD, and the Soul of an Abraham.