I am sure your father did not so.... Would you choose to be with them or
such as they are in another world, unto which you are hastening?... I am
under pressures of conscience to bear a publick testimony without respect
of persons.... I trust in Christ that when I am gone, I shall obtain a
good report of my having been faithful before him. To his mercy I commend
you, and remain in him,
Yours to serve,
I. MATHER. [Footnote: _Mass. Hist. Coll._ first series, iii. 126.]
BOSTON, _January_ 20, 1707-8.
To the Governour.
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BOSTON, _Jan_. 20, 1707-8.
Sir, There have appeared such things in your conduct, that a just concern
for the welfare of your excellency seems to render it necessary, that you
should be _faithfully_ advised of them.... You will give me leave to
write nothing, but in a style, whereof an ignorant mob, to whom (as well
as the General Assembly) you think fit to communicate what _fragments_ you
please of my letters, must be _competent judges_. I must proceed
accordingly.... I weakly believed that the wicked and horrid things done
before the righteous Revolution, had been heartily repented of; and that
the rueful business at New York, which many illustrious persons ... called
a barbarous murder, ... had been considered with such a repentance, as
might save you and your family from any further storms of heaven for the
revenging of it.
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