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

It is here Sufficiently insinuated, That people who have been by their Pastors brought home unto GOD, will afford a marvellous & mutual Satisfaction to one another, in the World to come; when it shall be enquired, How we have Received and Heard the Gospel which has been Preached unto us? Our Deceased Father, and Pastor, and Patriarch, we shall see him again in the World to Come: And it ⟨p. 221⟩will then be Remembered, How we have Received, what we have Heard, from him. If we have Received it as becomes the Oracles of GOD, we shall Rejoice together, and our Joy in one another, and in the Lord, will be Wonderful. If we have Refused and Rebelled, we shall give up our Account with Grief and not with Joy: Yea, we shall be Destroyed; The Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. The Pastor, who This Day Sixty Two Years ago, Preached his First Sermon to the North-Church in Boston. has of latter Years, ever spoken of you, as a Loving People. The Expressions of your Love to him, were Notable, and were Numberless, and were such as greatly Comforted him. What you expressed in the Last Years of his Life, and especially after he became an Emerited Soldier, and singularly at his Departure, is what I know not that any Church has ever equalled. In a very Public manner I now do, and in a more public manner, I hope, I AGAIN SHALL render you the Thanks, which are to be expected on the occasion. But I am now to tell you, That the most Significant way of Expressing your Love, will be, To Remember how you have Received and Heard, in the Ministry of that Burning and Shining Light, wherein ye Rejoiced for so long a Season. It is pressed, Heb. XIII. 7. Remember them who have spoken to you the Word of GOD. But then surely, we should Remember what they have spoken to us from the Word of GOD; Remember how we have Received and Heard; Yea, ⟨p. 222⟩Remember it, after we have seen the end of their conversation. Ecclesiastical History mentions one, who having word brought him. That his Father was Dead, made this Answer, Desine Blasphemias loqui, Pater mous est Immortalis. No, Sir, My Father is one who never can Dy. Upon the Death of him who was the Father of my Flesh, I desire to take the Great Consolations of GOD, that I have in Him who is my Immortal Father, and with whom the Fatherless find Mercy.