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

He was willing to have settled there. But he saw a Change of Times at the Door. Yea, as Young as he was, he then very Publicly Declared, [from Rev. XI. 2.] that further Sufferings for the Faithful Witnesses of CHRIST were to be looked for. In this View he returned unto Guernsey; where he had not been many Weeks before King Charles II. came in; And, what came in with him, every Body knows. When the King was Proclaimed, he openly Refused and Rebuked the Paganizing Rite of Health-drinking, which threatened on that occasion to drown all Sobriety: And anon, the King himself being by those whom he had Ensnared, Prevailed withal to Publish a Proclamation against that Practice, it Proved an Advantage unto this Young Reprover, and put some stop to Insults upon him. At this time the matchless General Monk, sent a Demand upon all Commission Officers in those parts, to Subscribe a Paper, wherein they were to Declare, That they Believed the Times NOW were and would be Happy. But while some Old Men Dreamed Dreams, this Young Man saw a true Vision of the Times. He Declined a Subscription to the Vain Paper; and thereupon the Deputy-Governor, who greatly Valued him and Admired him, did so too. The Chaplain of Jersey, (one Ashton) who had the Character of a Naughty Person, Informed the Duke of Albemarle, that the Reason why there did not ⟨p. 21⟩come such Complements from Guernsey as there did from Jersey, was, Mr. Mather being there. The Duke was violently Incensed, and in his Rage told the Governor, (Colonel Weaver, who was then at London,) that Mr. Mather should be sent for. But the Governor, though he was one of Monks appointing, and one that Mr. Mather had never seen, yet had his Heart so Disposed from above, that by his Means the Threatened Storm was diverted.

He was willing to have settled there. But he saw a Change of Times at the Door. Yea, as Young as he was, he then very Publickly Declared, [from Rev. XI. 2.] that further Sufferings for the Faithful Witnesses of CHRIST were to be looked for. In this View he returned unto Guernsey; where he had not been many Weeks before King Charles II. came in; And, what came in with him, every Body knows. When the King was Proclaimed, he openly Refused and Rebuked the Paganizing Rite of Health-dringing, which threatened on that occasion to drown all Sobriety: And anon, the King himself being by those whom he had Ensnared, Prevailed withal to Publish a Proclamation against that Practice, it Proved an Advantage unto this Young Reprover, and put some stop to Insults upon him. At this time the matchless General Monk, sent a Demand upon all Commission Officers in those parts, to Subscribe a Paper, wherein they were to Declare, That they Believed the Times NOW were and would be Happy. But while some Old Men Dreamed Dreams, this Young Man saw a true Vision of the Times. He Declined a Subscription to the Vain Paper; and thereupon the Deputy-Governour, who greatly Valued him and Admired him, did so too. The Chaplain of Jersey, (one Ashton) who had the Character of a Naughty Person, Informed the Duke of Albemarle, that the Reason why there did not