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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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§. 4. An Extreme Disaster befalling his Fathers Estate, he left the University; and became at once Usher to the School, and Curate in the Church, at Starford: Where a Lecture being maintained by a Combination of several Godly and Able Ministers, he, on that Occasion, fell into Acquaintance with several of them; especially Mr. Jeremiah Dyke of Epping, by whose Ministry the Holy Spirit of God, gave him a Discovery of his own Manifold Sinfulness and Wretchedness in an Unregenerate State, and Awakened him unto such a Self-Examination, as Drove him to a Sorrow little short of Despair: but after some, time, ⟨p. 4⟩the same Holy Spirit, enabled him to Receive the Christ and Grace, tendered in the Promises of the Gospel, with an Unspeakable Consolation. Where upon he thought himself concerned in that Advice of Heaven, When thou art Converted, Strengthen thy Brethren!
§. 4. An Extreme Disaster befalling his Fathers Estate, he left the University; and became at once Usher to the School, and Curate in the Church, at Starford: Where a Lecture being mentained by a Combination of several Godly and Able Ministers, he, on that Occasion, fell into Acquaintance with several of them; especially Mr. Jeremiah Dyke of Epping, by whose Ministery the Holy Spirit of God, gave him a Discovery of his own Manifold Sinfulness and Wretchedness in an Unregenerate State, and Awakened him unto such a Self-Examination, as Drove him to a Sorrow little short of Despair: but after some, time, ⟨p. 4⟩the same Holy Spirit, enabled him to Receive the Christ and Grace, tendered in the Promises of the Gospel, with an Unspeakable Consolation. Where upon he thought himself concerned in that Advice of Heaven, When thou art Converted, Strengthen thy Brethren!
§. 5. Having before This, been well Studied in the Tongues and Arts, he was the better fitted for the Higher Studies of Divinity; whereto he now wholly Addicted himself: And being in his own Happy Experience Acquainted with Faith, and Repentance, and Holiness, he did from that Experience now make Lively Sermons on those points unto his Hearers. He soon grew Eminent in his Ministry; setting off the Truths he Delivered, not only with such Ornaments of Laconic and Well contrived Expression, as made him worthy to be called, The Master of Sentences, but also with such Experimental Passages of Devotion, as made him Admired, for A Preacher seeking out Acceptable Words.