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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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he would not […] the Becon of his Great Soul on Fire, at the Lan• ing ⟨p. 60⟩of such a Little Cock-boat. He Learned the Lesson of Gregory, It is better, many times, to fly from an Injury by silence, than to overcome it by Replying; and he used that Practice of Grynaeus, To Revenge Wrongs, by Christian Taciturnity. And it may pass for a Branch of the same Temper in him, That he extremely hated all Allotri•-Episcopacy, and though he knew, as practically, as most men in the World, That we have a Call to do Good, as often as we have Power & Occasion, yet he was very Slow of Apprehending any Occasion of meddling At all, though he might have had never so much Power to meddle For Good, any where but within the Sphere of his own proper Calling. As he understood that Leontius blamed Constantine, for Interposing too far in Ecclesiastical Affairs, thus Mr. Cotton, on the Other side had a Great Aversion from Engaging in any Civil Ones; he would Religiously Decline taking into his Cognisance all Civil Controversies or Umpirages, and whatever Looked Heterogeneous to the Calling of One, whose whole Business 'twas, To Feed the Flock of God. Nevertheless in the Things of God, of Christ, of Conscience, his Condescending Temper did not hinder him, from he most Immovable Resolution. He would not […] Follow Peace with all men, as to abandon or rejudice, one Jot, the Interests of Holiness.
he would not 〈…〉 the Becon of his Great Soul on Fire, at the Lan• ing ⟨p. 60⟩of such a Little Cock-boat. He Learned the Lesson of Gregory, It is better, many times, to fly from an Injury by silence, than to overcome it by Replying; and he used that Practice of Grynaeus, To Revenge Wrongs, by Christian Taciturinty. And it may pass for a Branch of the same Temper in him, That he extremely hated all Allotri•-Episcopacy, and though he knew, as practically, as most men in the World, That we have a Call to do Good, as often as we have Power & Occasion, yet he was very Slow of Apprehending any Occasion of meddling At all, though he might have had never so much Power to meddle For Good, any where but within the Sphere of his own proper Calling. As he understood that Leontius blamed Constantine, for Interposing too far in Ecclesiastical Affairs, thus Mr. Cotton, on the Other side had a Great Aversion from Engaging in any Civil Ones; he would Religiously Decline taking into his Cognisance all Civil Controversies or Umpirages, and whatever Looked Heterogeous to the Calling of One, whose whole Business 'twas, To Feed the Flock of God. Nevertheless in the Things of God, of Christ, of Conscience, his Condesending Temper did not hinder him, from he most Immoveable Resolution. He would not Follow Peace with all men, as to abandon or rejudice, one Jot, the Interests of Holiness.