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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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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.
Their third Son was Mr Samuel Mather, at this time a Faithful and Useful Minister of the Gospel at Witney in Oxford-shire: A Writer of several Valuable Treatises; among which, his, Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity; and his, Vindication of the Deity of the Holy Spirit; and his, Vindication of the Sacred Scriptures; do shine with a particular Lustre, and challenge a Room and a Name for him, among, The Blessings of the Age. They had also Seven Daughters, all of which, Liv•d to be Mothers, except one which Died in its Infancy.
And they had herewithal that Rare Felicity, of Hearts made glad with Hoses, that they saw all their Children Choosing the Things that Please GOD, and laying hold on His Covenant.