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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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NORTONUS Honoratus.
THE LIFE OF Mr. JOHN NORTON.
§. 1. THERE was a Famous JOHN whose Achievements are by our Lord Emblazoned in those Terms; He was a Burning and a Shining Light. In the Tabernacle of Old, erected by the Order and for the Worship, of God, there were those Two Things, A Candlestick, and an Altar; in the One a Light, that might never Go out, in the Other a Fire, that might never be Extinguished; and yet such an Affinity between these that there was a Fire in the Light of the One, and a Light in the Fire of the other. Such a Mixture of both Faith and Love, should be in Those, that ⟨p. 2⟩are employed about the Service of the Tabernacle: And though the Tabernacle erected for our Lord in this Wilderness, had many such Burning and Shining Lights; vet among the Chief of them is to be Reckoned, that JOHN which we had in our Blessed NORTON.
§. 1. THERE was a Famous JOHN whose Atchievements are by our Lord Emblazoned in those Terms; He was a Burning and a Shining Light. In the Tabernacle of Old, erected by the Order and for the Worship, of God, there were those Two Things, A Candlestick, and an Altar; in the One a Light, that might never Go out, in the Other a Fire, that might never be Extinguished; and yet such an Affinity between these that there was a Fire in the Light of the One, and a Light in the Fire of the other. Such a Mixture of both Faith and Love, should be in Those, that ⟨p. 2⟩are employed about the Service of the Tabernacle: And though the Tabernacle erected for our Lord in this Wilderness, had many such Burning and Shining Lights; vet among the Chief of them is to be Reckoned, that JOHN which we had in our Blessed NORTON.