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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 34: ARTICLE XXXIV. Dead Abel, yet Speaking.
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ARTICLE XXXIV. Dead Abel, yet Speaking.
THE PREACHER, who sought out the Acceptable Words we have heard of, was One who wrote as Obscure an Hand perhaps, as his Admired Ramus, of whom Naucellus Complains, That a Stranger would ask a deal of Time to spell out ⟨p. 234⟩as much 'as Two or Three Lines of his Writing; or a less worthy to be Honoured Lipsius, of whose Writing Bonclarius makes the very same Complaint: and herein also he was not unlike to Bucer, who wrote an Hand so bad that the Printers could not read it: and Erasmus's too, it seems was bad enough:) Yet his Pen may say to the World, Have not I Written unto thee some Excellent Things? Which he has dropped for us, as the prophet his Melota when he was Ascending to the Heavenly World. Thus does he Leave something behind him, that may be doing of Good upon Earth, after he is gone to Heaven.
THE PREACHER, who sought out the Acceptable Words we have heard of, was One who wrote as Obscure an Hand perhaps, as his Admired Ramus, of whom Naucellus Complains, That a Stranger would ask a deal of Time to spell out ⟨p. 234⟩as much 'as Two or Three Lines of his Writing; or a less worthy to be Honoured Lipsius, of whose Writing Bonclarius makes the very same Complaint: and herein also he was not unlike to Bucer, who wrote an Hand so bad that the Printers could not read it: and Erasmus's too, it seems was bad enough:) Yet his Pen may say to the World, Have not I Written unto thee some Excellent Things? Which he has dropt for us, as the prophet his Melota when he was Ascending to the Heavenly World. Thus does he Leave something behind him, that may be doing of Good upon Earth, after he is gone to Heaven.