The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John…

and he found, that, Carere suavitatibus istis, his Abstinence had more sweetness in it, than any of the sweets which he abstained from; and so willing he was to have others partake with him in that sweetness, that when he has thought the countenance of a Minister has looked, as if he had made much of himself, he has gone to him with that Speech, Study Mortification, Brother! study Mortification! and he made all his Addresses with a becoming Majesty.

and he found, that, Carere suavitatibus istis, his Abstinence had more sweetness in it, than any of the sweets wh•ch he abstained from; and so willing he was to have others partake with him in that sweetness, that when he has thought the countenance of a Minister has lock'd, as if he had made much of himself, he has gone to him with that Speech, S•udy Mortification, Brother! study Mortification! and he made all his Addresses with a becoming Majesty.

The Lust of the Eye, was put out by him in such a manner, that it was in a Manner all one with him to be rich or poor. It could not be said of him, That he sought great things for himself; ⟨p. 32⟩but what estate he became owner of, was from the Blessing of God upon the Husbandry and Industry of some in his Family, rather than from any endeavours of his own. Once when there stood several Kine of his own before his door, his Wife, to try him, asked him, Whose they were? and she found that he knew nothing of them. He could not endure to plunge himself into secular Designs and Affairs, but accounted Sacerdos in foro as worthy of Castigation as Mercator in Templo; he thought that Minister and Market-man, were not Unisons, and that the Earth was no place for Aaron's holy Mitre to be laid upon. It was the Usage of most Parishes in the Country, to have an annual Rate for the maintenance of the Ministry, adjusted commonly by the select-men of the Towns; which tho it raised not any exuberant Salaries for the Ministers, who also seldom received all that the people had contracted for, nevertheless i• many places it prevented sore Temptations from befalling those that were labouring in the Wor and Doctrine; who must else often have experienced the Truth of Luther's Observation, Duriter profecto & miser viverent Evangelij Ministri si ex Libera populi contributione essent sustentan However, for his part, he propounded that wh stipend he had, should be Raised by Contribution & from the fame temper it was, that a f years before his Dissolution, being left without an Assistant in his Ministry, he pressed his Co gregation