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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
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.
Gratias agimus Domino Dureo, c•I Joseph• Long terra marique à fratribus Dissiti, meminisse Cordi fuit: Qui nos Misellos, in Cilicio, Cilicio autem ipsi confidimus Evangelico, Militants, •am Auspicato Nuncio invisere dignatus est: Qui Novam Angliam, quasi particulam aliquam Fimbria Vestments Aaronici, unguento pr••diviti delib•tam, in Album Syncretismi, Long celeberrimi, adscribere, non adspernatur: Qui porro Litterts a•. Syncretismum hortatoriis, subinde nobis Ausam prae•uit Testimonium hoc, quale quale, perhibendi Communionis nostrae fraternae, cum univer•a Chorte Protestantium, fidem Jesus Christ• pro•••entium. Ingenue e•m fatemur, tranquilla tu•• quumerant Omnia, nec Signa Minantia signis ad bu• nobis conspici•bantur; quippe quibus, Episcopis, illa Tempestate Rerum Dominis, publico Ministry Defungi, nedum Sacris frui, sine Subscriptione &. Conformitate, (ut loqui solent) atque adeo Humanarum Adinventionum, in Divinis, Commixtione, non Liceret, •t satius visum est, vel in Longinquas, ⟨p. 34⟩et Incultas Terrarum Oras, Cultus purioris Ergo concessisse, quam Oner• Hierarchico, cum Rerum Omnium Affluentia, Conscientiae autem Dispendio, succubuisse. At patriam fugiendo, nos Ecclesiarum Evangelicarum Communioni Nuncium misisse, hoc vero est quod fidenter & Sanct• pernegam•s.
Gratias agimus Domino Dureo, c•I Joseph• Longe terra marique à fratribus Dissiti, meminisse Cordi fuit: Qui nos Misellos, in Cilicio, Cilicio autem ipsi confidimus Evangelico, Militantes, am Auspicato Nuncio invisere dignatus est: Qui Novam Angliam, quasi particulam aliquam Fimbria Vestiment Aaronici, unguento prdiviti delibtam, in Album Syncretismi, Longe celeberrimi, adscribere, non adspernatur: Qui porro Litterts a. Syncretismum hortatoriis, subinde nobis Ausam praeuit Testimonium hoc, quale quale, perhibendi Communionis nostrae fraternae, cum univera Chorte Protestantium, fidem Jesu Christ proentium. Ingenue em fatemur, tranquilla tu quumerant Omnia, nec Signa Minantia signis ad bu nobis conspicibantur; quippe quibus, Episcopis, illa Tempestate Rerum Dominis, publico Ministeri Defungi, nedum Sacris frui, sine Subscriptione &. Conformitate, (ut loqui solent) atque adeo Humanarum Adinventionum, in Divinis, Commixtione, non Liceret, t satius visum est, vel in Longinquas,