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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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§. 8. Vast was the Treasure of Learning in this Reverend Man. He was not only a most Accurate Grammarian, which is abundantly manifested by his Printed Works in Diverse Languages; but an Universal Scholar: nevertheless, 'twas as a School man that he showed himself the most of a Scholar. He accounted that the Excellency of a Scholar, lay more in Distinctness of Judgment, than in Elegance of Language; and therefore, though he had a neater Style than most other men, yet he was Desirous to furnish himself a• •ugnam, rather than, ad pompam. Hence having Intimately Acquainted himself with the Subtleties of Scholastic Divinity, he made all to Illustrate the, Doctrine of Christ and of Grace, unto which he made all the Spoils of the Schools gloriously Subservient. He was a most Elegant Preacher, and the True Follower of Dr. Sibs!
§. 8. Vast was the Treasure of Learning in this Reverend Man. He was not only a most Accurate Grammarian, which is abundantly manifested by his Printed Works in Diverse Languages; but an Universal Scholar: nevertheless, 'twas as a School man that he show'd himself the most of a Scholar. He accounted that the Excellency of a Scholar, lay more in Distinctness of Judgment, than in Elegancy of Language; and therefore, though he had a neater Style than most other men, yet he was Desirous to furnish himself a• •ugnam, rather than, ad pompam. Hence having Intimately Acquainted himself with the Subtleties of Scholastic Divinity, he made all to Illustrate the, Doctrine of Christ and of Grace, unto which he made all the Spoils of the Schools gloriously Subservient. He was a most Elegant Preacher, and the True Follower of Dr. Sibs!
§. 9. But let his Excellencies have been what they will, there was in those Days a Set of Men, Resolved that the Church of God should Lose the Benefit of all those Excellencies, except the ⟨p. 7⟩Person which had them, could comply with certain Uninstituted Rites in the Worship of God; which Our Mr. Norton could not; and it was That which made him Ours. This Drove him to the Remote Regions of America, where he hoped, as well he might, that there would never be done so Unreasonable a Thing, as to obstruct that Evangelical Worship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the sake whereof, those Regions have been added unto the English Dominions. Wherefore in the year 1634. Having Married a Gentle woman both of Good Estate, and of Good Esteem, he took Shipping for New-England; accompanied in the same Ship with the Famous Mr. Thomas Shepard.