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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.
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but also caused him several times to say to me, Be sure, you don't pray, that you may Live beyond Fourscore! Yet Now, he Preached nobly on, An Old Disciple: as well as many other Subjects.
but also caused him several times to say to me, Be sure, you don't pray, that you may Live beyond Fourscore! Yet Now, he Preach'd nobly on, An Old Disciple: as well as many other Subjects.
And NOW, He that had wished for, Sufferings FOR the Lord, must be content with, Sufferings FROM the Lord. Even These born with the Faith and Patience of the Saints have a sort of Martyrdom in them, and will add unto the far more exceeding and Eternal Weight of Glory.
On Sept. 25. he did with an Excellent and Pathetic Prayer, in a mighty Auditory, Conclude a Day of Prayer kept by his Church, to obtain a Good Success of the Gospel, and the growth of Real and Vital PIETY, with Plentiful Effusions ⟨p. 201⟩of the Good SPIRIT, especially upon the Rising Generation. Within Two Days after This, he fell into an Apoplectic sort of Deliquium; (very much occasioned, as it was thought, by too extreme a concern of his Mind on some late Occurrences at New-Haven:) out of which he Recovered in a few Minutes; but it so enfeebled him, that he never went abroad any more.
On Sept. 25. he did with an Excellent and Pathetic Prayer, in a mighty Auditory, Conclude a Day of Prayer kept by his Church, to obtain a Good Success of the Gospel, and the growth of Real and Vital PIETY, with Plentiful Effusions ⟨p. 201⟩of the Good SPIRIT, especially upon the Rising Generation. Within Two Days after This, he fell into an Apoplectic sort of Deliquium; (very much occasion'd, as it was thought, by too extreme a concern of his Mind on some late Occurrences at New-Haven:) out of which he Recovered in a few Minutes; but it so enfeebled him, that he never went abroad any more.