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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.
And now, at the End of the Story, according to my Engagement, I am to tell; His Church with a noble Gratitude bore the Expenses of his Funeral GOD Reward them!
And now, at the End of the Story, according to my Engagement, I am to tell; His Church with a noble Gratitude bore the Expences of his Funeral GOD Reward them!
Immediately after this, the Pulpits throughout the Country were filled with Funeral Sermons on him. The other United Ministers of Boston also Successively for Nine or Ten Weeks together, with excellent Sermons in his own Pulpit, after a most Agreeable and Acceptable manner expressed their Condolence with his own Flock on the sad Occasion.
Immediately after this, the Pulpits throughout the Country were filled with Funeral Sermons on him. The other United Ministers of Boston also Successively for Nine or Ten Weeks together, with excellent Sermons in his own Pulpit, after a most Agreable and Acceptable manner express'd their Condolence with his own Flock on the sad Occasion.
And indeed, as those Valuable Servants of GOD concurred in their Veneration for the Father now ⟨p. 213⟩taken from their Head; and he had the Felicity of the Old Man Celebrated by Callimachus, whom [Greek or Hebrew] The Young Men Love, and Prize, and help as a Father to them; So he left them with a Joy Unspeakable upon it, that the Glorious Lord had betrusted His Churches here, with such Pious, Painful, and every way Desirable Hands. He saw a set of Young Ministers happily Introduced into the City, whom he Esteemed as more Precious than so many Golden Wedges of Ophir; and the Reverse of the Ancient Calamity which Substituted shields of Brass when the shield of Gold were carried off.