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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.
In consideration of this EYTAPIA, it was not amiss for a Grandson, upon the Birth Day on which he entered Fourscore, thus to Complement him.
In consideration of this EYTAPIA, it was not amiss for a Grandson, upon the Birth Day on which he entred Fourscore, thus to Complement him.
To my most Honoured GRAND-FATHER, on the Day of his entering the Eightieth Year of his Age. To my GRAND-FATHER in all Good so Great, His Nephew does his Age Congratulate. Tis not enough, Sir, that you Live to see Such Years; We hope, you'• our True Ne or be. We wish the Years in which you Live & Preach, To those of a Methuselah may reach. ⟨p. 200⟩Tis true, in common Reckoning we suppose You want Eight Hundred Eighty Six of those. But measuring Life by Works and not by Tears, Your Age Nine Hundred Sixty Nine appears. Methuselah had a Bright Father too; A Walker with his GOD; Sir, such as YOU. If You and We must have a Parting Day. Death, strike not!—Let him go in Enochs way. And, Sir, if Prophets may n't forever Live, May you in Grandsons left by You Survive.
To my most Honoured GRAND-FATHER, on the Day of his entring the Eightieth Year of his Age. To my GRAND-FATHER in all Good so Great, His Nephew does his Age Congratulate. Tis not enough, Syr, that you Live to see Such Years; We hope, you'• our True Ne or be. We wish the Years in which you Live & Preach, To those of a Methaselah may reach. ⟨p. 200⟩Tis true, in common Reckoning we suppose You want Eight Hundred Eighty Six of those. But measuring Life by Works and not by Tears, Your Age Nine Hundred Sixty Nine appears. Methuselah had a Bright Father too; A Walker with his GOD; Syr, such as YOU. If You and We must have a Parting Day. Death, strike not!—Let him go in Enochs way. And, Syr, if Prophets may n't forever Live, May you in Grandsons left by You Survive.