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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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§. 20. Mr. Norton being now Transplanted into that Garden, which our Lord had in Boston, did there bring forth much of that Fruit whereby the Heavenly Father was Glorified. There he Preached, he Wrote, he Prayed, and maintained without any Prelatical Episcopacy, a Care of all the Churches. And New England, being a Country whose Interests were most Remarkably and Generally Enwrapped in its Ecclesiastical Circumstances, there were many Good Offices, which Mr. Norton did, for the Peace of the whole Country, by his Wise Counsels upon many Occasions, given to its Counsellors. In Truth, if he had never done any thing, but that one thing of preventing by his Wise Interposition, the Acts of Hostility, which were like to pass between Our People, and the Dutch at Manhataes, That alone were well worth his coming into the Station, which he now had at Boston. But the Service which now most Signalized him was, his Agency at Whitehall; for, it being found necessary to Address the Restored King; the Worshipful Simon Bradstreet Esq. and this Reverend Mr. John Norton, were sent over as Agents, from the Colony, with an Address unto His Majesty; wherein there were among others, the following Passages.
§. 20. Mr. Norton being now Transplanted into that Garden, which our Lord had in Boston, did there bring forth much of that Fruit whereby the Heavenly Father was Glorified. There he Preached, he Wrote, he Pray'd, and mentained without any Prelatical Episcopacy, a Care of all the Churches. And New England, being a Country whose Interests were most Remarkably and Generally Enwrapped in its Ecclesiastical Circumstances, there were many Good Offices, which Mr. Norton did, for the Peace of the whole Country, by his Wise Counsels upon many Occasions, given to its Counsellours. In Truth, if he had never done any thing, but that one thing of preventing by his Wise Interposition, the Acts of Hostility, which were like to pass between Our People, and the Dutch at Manhataes, That alone were well worth his coming into the Station, which he now had at Boston. But the Service which now most Signalized him was, his Agency at Whitehal; for, it being found necessary to Address the Restored King; the Worshipful Simon Bradstreet Esq. and this Reverend Mr. John Norton, were sent over as Agents, from the Colony, with an Address unto His Majesty; wherein there were among others, the following Passages.