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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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This being the Primitive Doctrine of JUSTIFICATION, among the Churches of New-England; the Things that were judged Opposite hereunto, in the Renowned RICHARD BAXTERS Aphorisms of Justification, did then give a Great and Just Offence unto the Faithful in this Country; albeit, the other more Practical and Savoury Books of that Holy Man, were highly Valued, in these American Regions; and not a sew have here Blessed God for him, and for his Labours. And as in those Elder Days of New-England, the esteem, which our Church had for that Eminent Man, did not hinder them, from Rejecting that New Covenant of Works, with which they thought he Confounded that most Important Article, upon the Notions whereof the Church either Stands or Falls; thus, it is a Grief of Mind unto our Churches at this Day, to find that Great and Good Man, in some of his Last Works, under the Blinding Heat of his Indignation against some which we also account, Unjustifiable, yea, Dangerous, Opinions and Expressions of Dr. Crisp, Reproaching some of the most undoubted Points in our Common Faith. We Read him unaccountably ⟨p. 16⟩Enumerating among, Errors, which he says, have Corrupted Christianity, and Subverted the Gospel, such things as these;
This being the Primitive Doctrine of JUSTIFICATION, among the Churches of New-England; the Things that were judged Opposite hereunto, in the Renowned RICHARD BAXTERS Aphorisms of Justification, did then give a Great and Just Offence unto the Faithful in this Country; albeit, the other more Practical and Savoury Books of that Holy Man, were highly Valued, in these American Regions; and not a sew have here Blessed God for him, and for his Labours. And as in those Elder Dayes of New-England, the esteem, which our Church had for that Eminent Man, did not hinder them, from Rejecting that New Covenant of Works, with which they thought he Confounded that most Important Article, upon the Notions whereof the Church either Stands or Falls; thus, it is a Grief of Mind unto our Churches at this Day, to find that Great and Good Man, in some of his Last Works, under the Blinding Heat of his Indignation against some which we also account, Unjustifiable, yea, Dangerous, Opinions and Expressions of Dr. Crisp, Reproaching some of the most undoubted Points in our Common Faith. We Read him unaccountably ⟨p. 16⟩Enumerating among, Errors, which he sayes, have Corrupted Christianity, and Subverted the Gospel, such things as these;