A71036:4
Sixteen questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston…Sixteene questions of seriovs and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston…
Sixteen questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New England together with his answer to each question.Sixteene questions of seriovs and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New England together with his answer to each question.
London: printed by E. P. for Edward Blackmore, 1644
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Dear and Reverend Sir,
Deare and Reverend Sir,
WE do humbly and carnestly desire a short and plain Answer of those Questions under-written, and at the hand of you, those things we desire your speedy Answer unto: and though some of these we know your judgement in, yet not for our selves only, but for others sakes we put them all in.
WEE doe humbly and carnestly desire a short and plaine Answer of those Questions under-written, and at the hand of you, those things we desire your speedy Answer unto: and though some of these wee know your judgement in, yet not for our selves onely, but for others sakes we put them all in.
Reverend and beloved Brethren,
For an Answer unto your (Interrogatories, shall I call them?) or Questions. Though I might without Sin refer you (as our Saviour did the High-Priest when his Doctrine was questioned) to what I have ever taught and spoken openly to the world, as having in secret said ⟨p. 2⟩