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

He sailed from New-England, July 3. 1657. and in Five Weeks reached England. On August 24. he went from London for Lancashire: Where his Fathers old Friends received him, with a Singular and Mutual Satisfaction. In September, he Sailed from Liverpool to Dublin, and in Twenty four Hours arrived there. His Brother, who had not seen him for Seven Years, found it Necessary to be Convinced by the Letters he brought ⟨p. 17⟩with him, and by Questions of Infallible Discovery, that he was indeed what he was. But now he became also as a Father to him: And on his Advice he Entered his Name in Trinity-College. In October he fell Sick of the Measles; at which very time, his Brother Eleazar, with whom he had always been brought up, as with a Twin Brother, lay Sick of the same Disease, at a Thousand Leagues Distance from him: And the Month after, the Small-Pox Arrested him, from which it Pleased GOD Graciously to Recover him. In the Year, 1658. June 24. When he was Nineteen Years of Age, he Proceeded Master of Arts in Trinity-College; having first Performed the Exercises required by the Statutes of that University. The Proctor & some of the Fellows, who were Prelatically Disposed, gave him all the Discouragement they could, or durst; because of his being what they called, A Precisian. Nevertheless the Scholars were so Pleased with the Wit and Sense and Polite Learning brilliant in his Exercises, that they Publicly Hummed him; which being a Complement that he had never heard Paid unto any one before, at first had like to have given too much Surprise unto him, All the Seriously and Piously Disposed Scholars in the College Loved him; And none more than the Memorable Doctor Winter, who was the Provost of the College, and who had a son (Mr. Josiah Winter) that was unto him as a Jonathan unto his David. By the Influence of the Provost, he was chosen a Fellow of the College: but he did not Accept it. Motions came to him ⟨p. 18⟩from diverse Places, to come and Preach the Gospel unto them; and the Lord-Deputy and Council particularly Assigned him to Marahfelt; Whither being on his Travel, he was taken so very Sick on the Road, that he was forced back to Dublin. The Irish Air proved so Disagreeable to his Constitution, that he resolved for England;

He sail'd from New-England, July 3. 1657. and in Five Weeks reached England. On August 24. he went from London for Lancashire: Where his Fathers old Friends received him, with a Singular and Mutual Satisfaction. In September, he Sailed from Liverpool to Dublin, and in Twenty four Hours arrived there. His Brother, who had not seen him for Seven Years, found it Necessary to be Convinced by the Letters he brought