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Johannes in eremo. Memoirs, relating to the lives, of the ever-memorable, Mr. John Cotton,…
Johannes in eremo. Memoirs, relating to the lives, of the ever-memorable, Mr. John Cotton, who dyed, 23.d. 10.m. 1652. Mr. John Norton, who dyed, 5.d. 2.m. 1663. Mr. John Wilson, who dyed, 7.d. 6.m. 1667. Mr. John Davenport, who dyed, 15.d. 1.m. 1670. Reverend and renowned ministers of the Gospel, all, in the more immediate service of one church, in Boston; and Mr. Thomas Hooker, who dyed, 7.d. 5.m. 1647. Pastor of the church at Hartford; New-England. / Written, by Cotton Mather. ; [Three lines of Latin quotation]
Boston : Printed for and sold by Michael Perry, at his shop, under the west end of the Town-House., 1695
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Thither, even to that Religious and Reformed Plantation, after the Solemnest Applications to Heaven for Direction, this Great Person bent his Resolutions: and Letters procured from the Church of Boston, by Mr. Winthrop the Governor of the Colony, had their Influence on the matter.
Thither, even to that Religious and Reformed Plantation, after the Solemnest Applications to Heaven for Direction, this Great Person bent his Resolutions: and Letters procured from the Church of Boston, by Mr. Winthrop the Governour of the Colony, had their Influence on the matter.
§. 19. The God that had carried him through the Fire of Persecution, was now Graciously with him in his Passage through the Water of the Atlantic Ocean; and he enjoyed a Comfortable Voyage over the Great and Wide Sea. There were then, three Eminent Ministers of God, in the Ship; namely Mr. Cotton, Mr. Hooker, and Mr. Stone; which Glorious Triumvirate coming together, made the poor People in the Wilderness, at their coming, to say, That the God of Heaven had supplied them, with what would in some sort answer their Three Great necessities; Cotton for their Clothing, Hooker for their Fishing, and Stone for their Building: but by one or other of these Three Divines in the Ship, there was a Sermon Preached every Day, all the while, they were aboard: Yea, they had Three Sermons, or Expositions, for the most part every Day; Of, Mr. Cotton in the Morning, Mr. Hooker in the Afternoon, Mr. Stone after Supper, in the Evening. And after they had been a Month upon the Seas▪ Mr. Cotton received a Mercy, which God had now for Twenty years denied unto him, in the Birth of his Eldest Son; whom he called Sea-born, in the Remembrance of the never-to-be-Forgotten Blessings, which he thus enjoyed upon the Seas. But at the end of Seven Weeks, they arrived at New-England, September […]. in ⟨p. 31⟩the year 1633. Where he put a Shore at New-Boston, which in a few years by the Smile of God; especially upon the Holy Wisdom, Conduct and Credit of our Mr. Cotton, upon some Accounts of Growth, came to exceed Old Boston in every thing that Renders a Town Considerable. And it is Remarkable, that his Arrival at New-England, was just after the People there, had been by Solemn Fasting and Prayer seeking unto God, that in as much, as they had been engaging to walk with Him in His Ordinances, according to His Word, He would mercifully send over to them, such as might be Eyes unto them in the Wilderness, and strengthen them in Discerning and Following of that Word.