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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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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.
Urbem Romam, In Principle Reges habuere;
Urbem Romam, In Principl• Reges habuere;
So, the Roman Orator, though a very Mean Poet, yet making an Oration for a Good One, could not let his First Sentence pass him, without a perfect Hexameter, In Qua me non Inficior inedioeriter Esse.
If therefore, I were not of all men the most […], my Reader might now Expect an Entertainment altogether in Verse; for I am going to Write the Life of that New-English Divine, who had so nimble, a Faculty of putting his Devour thoughts into Verse, that he Signalized himself by the Greatest Frequency, perhaps, that ever Man used, of sending Poems, to All Persons, in All Places, on All Occasions; and upon this, as well as upon Greater Accounts, was a David unto the Flocks of our Lord in the Wilderness: Quicquid tentabat Dicere, Versus erat;
If therefore, I were not of all men the most 〈…〉, my Reader might now Expect an Entertainment altogether in Verse; for I am going to Write the Life of that New-English Divine, who had so nimble, a Faculty of putting his Devour thoughts into Verse, that he Signalized himself by the Greatest Frequency, perhaps, that ever Man used, of sending Poems, to All Persons, in All Places, on All Occasions; and upon this, as well as upon Greater Accounts, was a David unto the Flocks of our Lord in the Wilderness: Quicquid tentabat Dicere, Versus erat;