Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

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.

He much despised what they call Quaintness, but affected a Plain and therefore a Short sort of a Style. Though he were such a Scholar, yet his Learning hindered not his Condescension to the Lowest and Meanest Capacity: aiming to shoot not over the Heads, but into the Hearts, of the Hearers. He was very careful to be understood, and concealed every other Art, that he might Pursue and Practice that one Art of Being Intelligible. With Luther, he said, he counted him the Best Preacher. Qui Simplicissime docet. A Simple Diet, he counted the most Wholesome Diet.