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

Honourable, Venerable, and much Esteemed.

IT was not possible for me to be long undetermined, unto whom I should apply my self, in doing the part of a PARENTATOR, when I Remembered what Acknowledgements I owe, to the Learned Body, before which I am now appearing. Unto whom can I so agreeably present my FATHER as to my MOTHER; even to that Ancient and Famous University, whose Favours have so Cherished me, that they have rendered me as, A man whom his MOTHER Comforteth?

IT was not possible for me to be long undetermined, unto whom I should apply my self, in doing the part of a PARENTATOR, when I Remembred what Acknowledgments I owe, to the Learned Body, before which I am now appearing. Unto whom can I so agreeably present my FATHER as to my MOTHER; even to that Ancient and Famous University, whose Favours have so Cherished me, that they have rendered me as, A man whom his MOTHER Comforteth?

It is no small Intimation, how much the Truth which is according to Godliness is acknowledged in the Exemplary Church of SCOTLAND, That the Name and Worth of an OWEN is considered in it ⟨p. II⟩as it is, and his Writings are so much Recommended unto your Students. And, I hope, ANOTHER, who was of his Evangelical Principles, Exhibited in the History of his Life and Death, will also find some Regards with you. Yea, there have been some very Expressive Testimonies of His having already done so. And if you now see me helping my Aged Parent into the Senate of Illustrious Men, you would no more tax it as a Fault in me, than you would in an Antoninus. But yet I have done it in such a manner, that after the first Paragraph I drop the Relation, and speak not only in the Style but also with the Faith, of an unrelated and Uninterested and Unbiased Historian; putting on the Historian, I act the part of the Honest Levite, who said of his Father, I have not seen him.