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Abel being dead yet speaketh
Abel being dead yet speaketh; or, The life & death of that deservedly famous man of God, Mr John Cotton, late teacher of the church of Christ, at Boston in New-England. By John Norton, teacher of the same church.
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for Lodowick Lloyd, 1658
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.
A mans wisdom maketh his face to shine. He had a happy, 1a quick, comprehensive, and benign Understanding, as having received the manifestation of the Spirit, for the service and profit of others. To discover the mind of God, and therewith the sentence of Judgment, in matters too hard for inferior Judges, was no small part both of the worth and usefulness of him that was to minister before the Lord. The Queen of Sheba proved Solomon with hard questions. There is scarce any gift that more approximates the Receiver unto that which the learned call a Divine, then an ability in some measure to send away religious Casuists, as the Wise-man did that renowned Questionist, which communed with him of ⟨p. 32⟩all that was in her heart; And Solomon told her all her questions; there was not any thing hid from the king that he told her not. It seemed good unto the Father of lights to make this happy instrument, not only to excel his Brethren, but in many respects, upon this Account to excel himself: A grace so far acknowledged in him, as that all sorts, both the Magistrate and private persons, learned and unlearned, exercised with their respective cases of Conscience, waited under God in special manner upon his lips for knowledge, and sought the Law at his mouth. Hear to this purpose the Testimony of Mr Davenport that Eminent and Reverend man of God, the faithful Pastor of the Church at New-Haven (a Witness above many) in his own words, as followeth;
A mans wisdom maketh his face to shine. He had a happy, 1a quick, comprehensive, and benign Understanding, as having received the manifestation of the Spirit, for the service and profit of others. To discover the mind of God, and therewith the sentence of Judgment, in matters too hard for inferior Judges, was no small part both of the worth and usefulness of him that was to minister before the Lord. The Queen of Sheba proved Solomon with hard questions. There is scarce any gift that more approximates the Receiver unto that which the learned call a Divine, then an ability in some measure to send away religious Casuists, as the Wise-man did that renowned Questionist, which communed with him of ⟨p. 32⟩