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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.
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.
But the Storm that is to shake sandy Foundations is coming on; And men will then see their Errors.
On the Seventh Day after this, he was laid in the Cave of the Treasure, and GOD Honoured him with a Greater Funeral, than had ever been seen for any Divine, in these (and some Travellers at it, said, in any other) parts of the World. The Honourable, William Dummer, Esq who was then Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief; and his Honourable, Ancient, Cordial Friend, Samuel Sewall, Esq the Chief Judge, of the Province; with the President of the College, and Three of the Principal Ministers, were they