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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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You have been among ⟨p. 19⟩the First of Magistrates, which have approved and practised the Congregational Way; no small Favour from God, nor Honour to your selves, with the Concration to come; when that shall appear to be, The Way to Christ.
[…] But we say nothing of Norton, if we […] of An Orthodox Evangelist. Being […], Such an One, he Digested the Subtleties of the […] into Solid and Wholesome Christianity, which he Published in a Treatise Entitled, The Orthodox Evangelist; wherein he handles the Abstruse Points of the Existence, and Subsistence, and Efficience of God, and the Person of Christ, and the A•thods of the Spirit in Uniting us to Him; and the Doctrine of Justification, with the Future and Happy State of the Saints; all in such a manner, that Mr. Cotton saw cause to say in his Preface to this Treatise, Clusters of Ripe Grapes passing under the Press, are fit to be Transported unto All Nations; thus, such Gifts and Labours passing under the Press, may be fitly Communicated to All Churches. The Physicians do speak, there are Pillulae sine Quibus, that is, Sine Quibus esse Nolo: So there are Libelli sine Quibus, Some Books, Sine Quibus esse Nolo; and this is one of them. This Book he Dedicated unto his own Church in Ipswich; and in the Close of his Dedication, I cannot forget this Emphatical Passage, YOU are Our Glory and Joy: forget not the Emphasis in the ⟨p. 20⟩Word, Our: Ministers, compared with other Christians have little to Joy in, in this World: It is not with the Ministers of the Present, as with the Ministers of late Times; nor with the Exiles, as with the Rest; nor with your Exiles as with some others; Let this Our, or, if you please Your Condition, for therein you have been both Partakers with us, and Supporters of us, be your Provocation. Thus and more than thus, useful was this Bradwardin of New England, while Ipswich had him.
〈…〉 But we say nothing of Norton, if we of An Orthodox Evangelist. Being , Such an One, he Digested the Subtilties of the into Solid and Wholesome Christianity, which he Published in a Treatise Entituled, The Orthodox Evangelist; wherein he handles the Abstruse Points of the Existence, and Subsistence, and Efficience of God, and the Person of Christ, and the Athods of the Spirit in Uniting us to Him; and the Doctrine of Justification, with the Future and Happy State of the Saints; all in such a manner, that Mr. Cotton saw cause to say in his Preface to this Treatise, Clusters of Ripe Grapes passing under the Press, are fit to be Transported unto All Nations; thus, such Gifts and Labours passing under the Press, may be fitly Communicated to All Churches. The Physicians do speak, there are Pillulae sine Quibus, that is, Sine Quibus esse Nolo: So there are Libelli sine Quibus, Some Books, Sine Quibus esse Nolo; and this is one of them. This Book he Dedicated unto his own Church in Ipswich; and in the Close of his Dedication, I cannot forget this Emphatical Passage, YOU are Our Glory and Joy: forget not the Emphasis in the