N00594:179
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 16. Another considerable Service, which then called for the Studies of this Excellent man, ⟨p. 12⟩was the Advising, Modelling, and Recommending the Platform of Church Discipline, Agreed by a Synod at Cambridge in the year 1647. Into that Platform he would fain have had Inserted, certain Propositions concerning the Watch, which our Churches are to have over the Children Born in them; which Propositions were certainly, The First Principles of New-England: only the fierce Oppositions of One eminent Person, caused him that was of a Peaceable Temper, to forbear urging them any further; by which means, when those very Propositions came to be Advanced and Embraced in Another Synod, more than twice Seven years after, many People did Ignorantly count them Novelties. Moreover, when the Synod first Assembled, it was a thing of some unhappy Consequence, that the Church of Boston would not send any Messengers unto it: but Mr. Norton Preaching the next Lecture there, wherein he Handled the Nature of Councils, and the Power of Civil Magistrates to call such Assemblies, and the Duty of the Churches in Regarding their Advice, the Church of Boston were therewithal so satisfied, as to Testify their Communion with the Rest of the Churches, by sending three Messengers to accompany their Elders now in the Synod. And when the Result of the Synod, came to try it's Acceptance in the Churches; he did his part, especially in his own, with a Prudent and Pious Diligence, to obtain it; which was happily Accomplished.
§. 16. Another considerable Service, which then called for the Studies of this Excellent man, ⟨p. 12⟩was the Advising, Modelling, and Recommending the Platform of Church Discipline, Agreed by a Synod at Cambridge in the year 1647. Into that Platform he would sain have had Inserted, certain Propositions concerning the Watch, which our Churches are to have over the Children Born in them; which Propositions were certainly, The First Principles of New-England: only the fierce Oppositions of One eminent Person, caused him that was of a Peaceable Temper, to forbear urging them any further; by which means, when those very Propositions came to be Advanced and Embraced in Another Synod, more than twice Seven years after, many People did Ignorantly count them Novelties. Moreover, when the Synod first Assembled, it was a thing of some unhappy Consequence, that the Church of Boston would not send any Messengers unto it: but Mr. Norton Preaching the next Lecture there, wherein he Handled the Nature of Councils, and the Power of Civil Magistrates to call such Assemblies, and the Duty of the Churches in Regarding their Advice, the Church of Boston were therewithal so satisfied, as to Testify their Communion with the Rest of the Churches, by sending three Messengers to accompany their Elders now in the Synod. And when the Result of the Synod, came to try it's Acceptance in the Churches; he did his part, especially in his own, with a Prudent and Pious Diligence, to obtain it; which was happily Accomplished.