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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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and a New Note upon a Text •fore him, occurring to his mind, but just as he was going into the Assembly, has taken up his Discourse for that Hour, so Pertinently and Judiciously, that the most Critical of his Auditors, imagined nothing Extemporaneous. Indeed his Library was vast, and vast was his Acquaintance with it; but although amongst his Readings, he had given a Special Room, unto the Fathers, and ⟨p. 54⟩unto the School-men, yet, at last, he preferred one Calvin among them all. If Erasmus, when offered a Bishopric to Write against Luther could answer, There was more Divinity in a […] of Luther, than in all Thomas Aquinas; T• no wonder that Salmasius could so Venera•• Calvin, as to say, That he had rather be […] Author of that One Book, The Institutions written by Calvin, than have written all that was ev•• done by Gro•i•s. Even such a Calvinist […] our Cotton! Said he, I have read the Fathers […] the School men, and Calvin too; but I find, Th• he that has Calvin, has 'em all. And being asked why in his Latter Days, he Indulged Noctur••• Studies, more than formerly, he pleasantly Replied, Because I Love to Sweeten my mouth with piece of Calvin, before I go to sleep.
and a New Note upon a Text •fore him, occurring to his mind, but just as he was going into the Assembly, has taken up his Discourse for that Hour, so Pertinently and Judiciously, that the most Critical of his Auditors, imagined nothing Extemporaneous. Indeed his Library was vast, and vast was his Acquaintance with it; but although amonst his Readings, he had given a Special Room, unto the Fathers, and ⟨p. 54⟩unto the School-men, yet, at last, he preferr'd one Calvin among them all. If Erasmus, when offered a Bishoprick to Write against Luther could answer, There was more Divinity in a 〈…〉 of Luther, than in all Thomas Aquinas; T no wonder that Salmasius could so Venera Calvin, as to say, That he had rather be Author of that One Book, The Institutions written by Calvin, than have written all that was ev done by Grois. Even such a Calvinist our Cotton! Said he, I have read the Fathers the School men, and Calvin too; but I find, Th he that has Calvin, has 'em all. And being asked why in his Latter Dayes, he Indulged Noctur Studies, more than formerly, he pleasantly Replied, Because I Love to Sweeten my mouth with piece of Calvin, before I go to sleep.