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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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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.
On March 6. 1662. he came into the Married State; Espousing the only Daughter, of the Celebrated Mr. John Cotton; in Honour to whom, he did (as Dr. Lightfoot had before done in Honour to a Patron of the same Name) call his Firstborn Son by the Name of COTTON. She was a Gentlewoman of much Goodness in her Temper; a Godly, an Humble, and a Praying Woman, and one that often set apart whole Days for Prayer and Secret Interviews with Heaven. When she Died, which was Fifty two Years after, her Eldest Son did as much of Justice to her Memory, as her Inhibitions of all Embellishments upon her Character would Permit him, and Published it under the Title of, Maternal Consolations. But of him, there is no more to be Written. Tis the Writer.
Their second Son, was Mr. Nathanael Mather, who Died at the Age of Nineteen, an Instance of Uncommon Attainments in Religion and Erudition: deserving the Epitaph upon his Grave at Salem; The Ashes of an hard Student, a good Scholar, and a great Christian. His Life, Entitled, Early Piety Exemplified, has had the Respects of three or four Editions paid unto it; and this Addition thereto, that no little part of the first Edition was bought by that Good Man. Mr. Philip Henry to give away; and the second Edition had a Prefatory and Panegyrical Attestation of that Bright Man Mr. Matthew Mead set before it.
Their second Son, was Mr. Nathanael Mather, who Died at the Age of Nineteen, an Instance of Uncommon Attainments in Religion and Erudition: deserving the Epitaph upon his Grave at Salem; The Ashes of an hard Student, a good Scholar, and a great Christian. His Life, Entituled, Early Piety Exemplified, has had the Respects of three or four Editions paid unto it; and this Addition thereto, that no little part of the first Edition was bought by that Good Man. Mr. Philip Henry to give away; and the second Edition had a Praefatory and Panegyrical Attestation of that Bright Man Mr. Matthew Mead set before it.