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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.
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 ⟨p. 212⟩that held the Pall; before which, One Hundred and Threescore Scholars of the College, whereof he had once been the President, walked in Order; And there were Followers of every Rank, (among which about Fifty Ministers) and Spectators that could not be numbered: All with an Uncommon sadness in their Countenance, and a most Serious aspect: concurring to the fulfilment of the Text, on which ONE whom he greatly Loved, and in the Prospect of whose proving a very Faithful and Useful Instrument of Good in the Churches he greatly rejoiced; [Mr. Thomas Foxcroft] on that Day entertained a great Auditory with a very acceptable Sermon: [2 Chron. XXIV. 15, 16.] He was full of Days when he died; and they Buried him—Honourably,—because he had done Good in Israel. Indeed he might on many Accounts be called, The JEHOJADA of New-England!
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 Governour and Commander in Chief; and his Honourable, Ancient, Cordial Friend, Samuel Sewall, Esq the Chief Judge, of the Province; with the Praesident of the College, and Three of the Principal Ministers, were they ⟨p. 212⟩that held the Pall; before which, One Hundred and Threescore Scholars of the College, whereof he had once been the Proesident, walked in Order; And there were Followers of every Rank, (among which about Fifty Ministers) and Spectators that could not be numbred: All with an Uncommon sadness in their Countenance, and a most Serious aspect: concurring to the fulfilment of the Text, on which ONE whom he greatly Loved, and in the Prospect of whose proving a very Faithful and Useful Instrument of Good in the Churches he greatly rejoiced; [Mr. Thomas Foxcroft] on that Day entertained a great Auditory with a very acceptable Sermon: [