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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 2: ARTICLE II. An Early Conversion to Serious PIETY.
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.
ARTICLE II. An Early Conversion to Serious PIETY.
IF it might be allowed unto Dr. More, to say it of himself, That he had as a Fiery Arrow been shot into the World, and be hoped, he had hit the Mark: Such an xpectation may be Allowed now to be raised for Dr. Mather; and we shall see how the Arrow Flies and Shines and Speeds in its Motions.
IF it might be allow'd unto Dr. More, to say it of himself, That he had as a Fiery Arrow been shot into the World, and be hoped, he had hit the Mark: Such an xpectation may be Allow'd now to be raised for Dr. Mather; and we shall see how the Arrow Flies and Shines and Speeds in its Motions.
While he might yet but pass for a Namesake to Ma•herellus, he was a Lad, that Loved his Play well enough; and yet there was no Lad in the School of his Age that could hold pace with him for his Book: He was (with his Brother Eleazar who was two Years Older than he) Admitted into the College at the Age of Twelve. After he had Lived about a Year at the College, his Parents fearing that some things there might not well suit his Weakly Constitution, (for so they took it:) and willing to have him under a more than Ordinary Inspection and Instruction, sent him to Live with the Famous Mr. Norton, at Ipswich; and with him he removed unto Boston A. C. 1653. continuing several Years a Pupil under him.
While he might yet but pass for a Namesake to Ma•herellus, he was a Lad, that Lov'd his Play well enough; and yet there was no Lad in the School of his Age that could hold pace with him for his Book: He was (with his Brother Eleazar who was two Years Older than he) Admitted into the College at the Age of Twelve. After he had Lived about a Year at the Colledge, his Parents fearing that some things there might not well suit his Weakly Constitution, (for so they took it:) and willing to have him under a more than Ordinary Inspection and Instruction, sent him to Live with the Famous Mr. Norton, at Ipswich; and with him he removed unto Boston A. C. 1653. continuing several Years a Pupil under him.