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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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ARTICLE XXXIII. The Preacher; How and What he Preached.
ARTICLE XXXIII. The Preacher; How and What he Preach'd.
WE can't part with such an Able Minister of the New-Testament as Dr. Mather so; but we must look back upon the Performances of His Holy Ministry. Though the Preacher, have been, what all Flesh is, as Grass; and the Glory Wherein he shone, prove like the Flower of the Field; yet what he brought, and his way of bringing, the Living Word of GOD, may and should Abide with us.
Though I never knew a more Candid Hearer, yet Thousands and Thousands have concurred in saying, They never knew a more Complete Preacher. He was indeed the Rabbi Hadarsan of New England! and one of whom very Competent Judges would say, He never Preached a Sermon but what was worthy of the press.—And there was nothing more Common then for People, when they would give the Highest Applause unto a Preacher, to say, He Preaches like Dr. Mather. A very Accomplished Person, Dedicating to him a Disputation full of Erudition, De CHRISTI Descensu ad Inferos, Printed in Holland, 1702. very justly Saluted him, as, Theologorum et Philosophorum onnium, per totam, qua late patet, NovAngliam, facile Princeps. Being such a Price of Preachers The Manner and the Matter of his Preaching, will certainly deserve to have some Notice taken of it.
Though I never knew a more Candid Hearer, yet Thousands and Thousands have concurr'd in saying, They never knew a more Compleat Preacher. He was indeed the Rabbi Hadarsan of NewEngalnd! and one of whom very Competent Judges would say, He never Preached a Sermon but what was worthy of the press.—And there was nothing more Common then for People, when they would give the Highest Applause unto a Preacher, to say, He Preaches like Dr. Mather. A very Accomplished Person, Dedicating to him a Disputation full of Erudition, De CHRISTI Descensu ad Inferos, Printed in Holland, 1702. very justly Saluted him, as, Theologorum et Philosophorum onnium, per totam, qua late patet, NovAngliam, facile Princeps. Being such a Price of Preachers The Manner and the Matter of his Preaching, will certainly deserve to have some Notice taken of it.