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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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••mbard must out of Date; We now Profess Norton, the Master of the Sentences; Scotus, a Dunce to Him; should we compare▪ Aquinas, here, None to be Named are.
Of a more Heavenly Strain, his Notions were, More pure, Sublime, Scholastical, and clear. More like the' Apostles Paul, and John, I wist, Was this our Orthodox Evangelist.
Of a more Heavenly Strain, his Notions were, More pure, Sublime, Scholastical, and clear. More like th' Apostles Paul, and John, I wist, Was this our Orthodox Evangelist.
Which Lines accompanied with Mr. Wilsons Anagrammatising of JOHANNES NORTONUS into Nonne is Honor•ius? Will Give him his Deserved Character.
§. 23. He that shall Read the Tragical Romances, written by that Brazen-faced Liar Bolsecus, concerning the Deaths of such men as Calvin and Beza, or such monstrous Writings as those of Tympius, ochleus, Genebard, and some others, who would bear the World in hand, that Luther and Occolampadius Learned the Protestant Religion, of the Devil, and were at last, killed by him; and that Bucer had his Guts Pulled out and cast about by the Devil; will not Wonder if I tell him, that after the Death of Mr. Norton, the Quakers Published a Libel, by them called, A Representation to King and Parliament; wherein, pretending to Report some Remarkable Judgments upon their Persecutors, they Insert this Passage, John Norton Chief Priest, in Boston, by the Immediate Power of the Lord, was Smitten, and as he was Sinking down by the Fire side, being under Just Judgment, he confessed, the Hand of the Lord was upon him, and so he Dy'd.—Which they mention, as a Judgment upon a Persecutor. Whereas, the Death of this Good man, was Attended with no Circumstances, but what unto a Good man might be Eligible and Comfortable, and Circumstanced far otherwise, than it was by those Revilers Represented. But it was necessary for that Enchanted People, thus to Revenge themselves upon one, who amongst his others Services o the Church of God, already