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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.
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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.
He had been hitherto, a Lad (tho' free from any Scandalous Outbreakings of Immorality, yet) nothing more than outwardly Moral; One Walking in the Vanity of his Mind; and a Stranger to the Dispositions of Serious Piety; one Alienated from the Life of GOD, and Unmindful of the Great Work and End, which they that Live unto God, must have their Mind above all things concerned about. But the Glorious GOD having made him a Chosen Vessel, and intended him fo• His Instrument in Turning many to Righteousness, made an Early Seizure on him, and betimes took him under the Sanctifying Operations of His Holy SPIRIT. That Sincere and Thorough Turn to GOD, and Righteousness, was now Produced him, which made a Conspicuous Change upon him, and fixed him in the Ways of PIETY all the rest of his Days: Yea, the