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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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§. 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.
§. 9. But let his Excellencies have been what they will, there was in those Dayes 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.
§. 10. In the Road betwixt Harwich and Yarmouth, he very narrowly escaped a Terrible. Shipwreck: for by the Vehemency of a Storm, all their Anchors gave way, so that they were Driven within a Cables Length of the Sands; but yet the Anchor of their Hope in God, held fast unto the Last. Mr. Shepard having taken the Mariners above Decks, Mr. Norton took the Passengers between Decks, and each of them with their Company, applied themselves unto Fervent Prayer, whereto the Almighty God gave a present Answer in their Wonderful Deliverance. After this Tempest, which Disappointed their Voyage to New England for that Season, Mr.