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The Famous Mather Byles; The Noted Boston Tory Preacher, Poet, and Wit, 1707-1788


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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII The Byles Family By his first wife, as we have said, Doctor Byles had six children, three of whom, Mather, Jr., Elizabeth, and Samuel, lived to grow up; by his second wife he had three, two of whom only, the Misses Mary and Catherine lived to maturity. Mather Byles, Jr., was born in Boston January twelfth, 1734,69 and graduated at Harvard College in 1751. Six years later he formally entered the Congregational ministry at New London, Connecticut, over the church in which town he remained for between ten and eleven years. At his ordination his father preached the sermon and gave the charge, and a very impressive and serious sermon and charge these efforts of the older Mather Byles were. The sermon as printed is entitled "The man of God thoroughly furnished to every good work," and it is a strong and earnest presentation of the minister's duty and opportunity. To his first ministerial charge the youthful Byles brought the prestige of his distinguished Mather descent, his father's ecclesiastical, social, and literary importance, and his own education and brilliant promise, and naturally he at once became a great favourite in the Connecticut town. The chief cause of discomfort to him in) New London for a long time was the presence there of an obscure Sabbatarian sect known as the Rogerenes, with which people he soon began a violent controversy, chiefly on the question of the special day that should be observed as the day of rest. We have a portrait of the younger Byles taken, it would seem, soon after the Revolution, when he was about forty-five years old, which shows him, as he was, a man of somewhat delicate mould, probably smaller than his father, with a nervous, excitable face, rather thin lips, firmly pressed together, and the unmistakable look and p...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151540294
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151540293
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 100 gr


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