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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 the Biography that has Embalmed Ramus and Calvin, and some other Great Men, for the ⟨p. 207⟩View of Posterity, something of their last Will and Testament has been inserted. We have as good as done this for Dr. Mather, in our offering of this Instrument. NEW-ENGLAND, Behold and Receive thy Legacy!
In the Biography that has Enbalmed Ramus and Calvin, and some other Great Men, for the ⟨p. 207⟩View of Posterity, something of their last Will and Testament has been inserted. We have as good as done this for Dr. Mather, in our offering of this Instrument. NEW-ENGLAND, Behold and Receive thy Legacy!
The Sovereign Disposer of all things, would not allow us now to say, Sortitus est facilem exitum, et qualem semper Optaverat. However, I will not proceed now with such Punctual Relations, of the Doctors last Sickness, as the Funeral Orations on the Professors beyond Sea, use to be stuffed withal. But for the sake of what follows, I will Relate this: It was not long after this, that among other Infirmities, he was extremely tortured and enfeebled, with an obstinate Hicket, which would sometimes hold him a Week or perhaps a Fortnight, without Intermission, and then Intermit a little while, but return with the former Violence, to such a Degree that it was at last found, His Diaphragm Suffered a Corrosion from it. Under the Uneasy and Incessant Malady, and the Vapours which produced it, and were produced by it, he grew at sometimes very Forgetful, and even Delirious: And In the Minutes of the Darkness wherein he lay thus feeble and fore broken, he sometimes let fall expressions of some Fear lest he might after all be Deceived in his Hope of the Future Blessedness. His Holy Ministry having very much insisted on that Point, That no care could be too much to prevent our being Deceived in that Important Matter; tis no wonder, that as the Dark Vapours which assaulted and fettered his Intellectual Powers, broke in upon him, his Head should run much ⟨p. 208⟩