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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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§. 10. At Last, being Persecuted in One Country, he must Flee into another. The Plantation of a New-English Colony was begun; And Mr Wilson, with some of his Neighbours, Embarked themselves in the Fleet, which came over thither in the year 1630. Where he applied himself with all the Vigour Imaginable, to Encourage the poor People, under the Difficulties of their New Plantation. This Good People buried near Two Hundred of their Number, wit• in a Quarter of a year after their first Landing; which caused Mr. Wilson particularly to Endeavour their Consolation, by Preaching on Jacobs not being disheartened by the Death of his nearest Friends in the way, when God had called him to Remove. And how Remarkably, perhaps I might say, Excessively, ⟨p. 15⟩Liberal he was in Employing his Estate for the Relief of the Needy, Every such One so beheld him, as to Reckon him, The Father of them all: Yea, the poor Indians themselves also tasted of his Bounty. If it were Celebrated, as the Glory of Bellarmine, that he would Sell his Goods to convert them into Alms for the poor, yea, that, Quadam Die proprium Atramentarium Argenteolum, it ditaret Inopes, inter pig nora obligavit, out Mr. Wilson, though a greater Disclaimer of Merit, than Bellarmine was, not only in his Writings, but on his Death-bed it self, yet came not behind Bellarmine for the Extension of his Charity. To give Instances of his, even over-doing Liberality, would be to do it Injuries; for indeed they were Innumerable; He acted as if the Primitive Agreement of having All Things in Common, had been of all things the most Agreeable unto him. I shall Sum up all in the Lines of an Elegant Elegy, which Mr. Samuel Bach, an Ingenious Merchant made upon him, at his Death;
§. 10. At Last, being Persecuted in One Country, he must Flee into another. The Plantation of a New-English Colony was begun; And Mr Wilson, with some of his Neighbours, Embarked themselves in the Fleet, which came over thither in the year 1630. Where he applied himself with all the Vigour Imaginable, to Encourage the poor People, under the Difficulties of their New Plantation. This Good People buried near Two Hundred of their Number, wit• in a Quarter of a year after their first Landing; which caused Mr. Wilson particularly to Endeavour their Consolation, by Preaching on Jacobs not being disheartned by the Death of his nearest Friends in the way, when God had called him to Remove. And how Remarkably, perhaps I might say, Excessively,