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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.
—But when the Physicians came to the Evisceration of the Dead Body, how astonished were they to find, what cause there had been for the Complaints of the last Three Weeks before he died; and it added unto all our Astonishment that they were no Earlier! They found, besides a Polypus on his Bladder, no less than Six Large Stones in it, on several uneven Shapes, and some of them above an Inch Diameter, the least of which was big enough to have made a Giant roar. Some of the Stones being broken, were ⟨p. 211⟩found Collections of loose pieces of Gravel, which had a thin shell grown over them.—Animus meminesse horret Luctuque refugit.
I have said, It was on the Twenty Third of August; A Day so near to the Black Day, of which it may be said, There never had been a Day in any Nation under Heaven, wherein so many such Lamps of Heaven were at once extinguished; that it puts me in mind of Observing, That, I suppose, Dr. Mather now brought up the Rear in that Illustrious Army of Confessors, who go by the Name of The ejected Ministers; and on whose Ill usage, I am sorry the Writers of Mr. Doolittel's Life, have newly seen sad cause to make this Reflection; Such an Invasion upon the Kingly Office of CHRIST—was an Act that calls for greater Signs of Repentance than have yet appeared, Or than the Present Generation shows any Disposition to.
I have said, It was on the Twenty Third of August; A Day so neer to the Black Day, of which it may be said, There never had been a Day in any Nation under Heaven, wherein so many such Lamps of Heaven were at once extinguished; that it puts me in mind of Observing, That, I suppose, Dr. Mather now brought up the Rear in that Illustrious Army of Confessors, who go by the Name of The ejected Ministers; and on whose Ill usage, I am sorry the Writers of Mr. Doolittel's Life, have newly seen sad cause to make this Reflection; Such an Invasion upon the Kingly Office of CHRIST—was an Act that calls for greater Signs of Repentance than have yet appeared, Or than the Present Generation shows any Disposition to.