Johannes in eremo. Memoirs, relating to the lives, of the ever-memorable, Mr. John Cotton,…

§. 14. In the Wilderness, he met with his Difficulties; For beside, the Loss of Houses, Diverse Times by Fire, which yet he bore with such Cheerful Submission, that Once One that met […] on the Road, informing of him, Sir, I have sad News for you; while you have been abroad, your House is burnt! His first Answer was, Blessed be God: He has burnt this House, because He intends to Give me a Better! (which accordingly came to […];) he was also put upon Complying with the Inclinations of his Eldest Son to Travel; who accordingly Travelled, first into Holland, then into Italy, where he proceeded a Doctor of Physic, and so Returned into England, Excellently well Adorned with all the Accomplishments of a most •ous and Useful Gentlemen. But this Worthy Person Dyed, about the year 1658. And this ••stned the Death of his Mother, ere the year same about; which more than Doubled the Grief of his Father. And these Afflictions were yet further Embittered by the Death of his Eldest Daughter, Mrs. Rogers, in Child-bed with her first Child; at whose Interment, though he could not but Express a deal of Sorrow, yet he did it with so much Patience, that, In Token, he said, of his Grounded & Joyful Hopes, to meet her again in the Morning of the Resurrectin, and of his Willingness to Resign her into the Hands of Him, who would make all Things work together for Good, he himself took ⟨p. 22⟩the Spade, and threw in the First Shovelful of Earth upon her. And not long after, he buried Three or Four of his Grand-Children by another Daughter Mrs. Danforth (yet Living with her Worthy Son in Law Edward Bromfield Esq. in Boston) Whereof One Lying by the Walls, on a Day of Public Thanksgiving, this Holy man then Preached a most Savoury Sermon, on Job 121. The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away, Blessed be the Name of the Lord. The next Child, although so Weakly, that all Despaired of it's Life, his Prophetical Grand Father, said, Call him, John, I Believe in God, he shall Live, and be a Prophet too, and do God Service in his Generation Which is, at this Day, fulfilled in Mr. John Danforth, the present Pastor to the Church of Dorchester Encountering with such, and many other Exercises, his years Rolled away, till he had Served New England, Three years before Mr. Cottons Coming over, Twenty years with him Ten years with Mr. Norton, and Four years after him.

§. 14. In the Wilderness, he met with his Difficulties; For beside, the Loss of Houses, Dierse Times by Fire, which yet he bore with such Cheerful Submission, that Once One that met on the Road, informing of him, Sir, I have sad News for you; while you have been abroad, your House is burnt! His first Answer was, Blessed be God: He has burnt this House, because He intends to Give me a Better! (which accordingly came to ;) he was also put upon Complying with the Inclinations of his Eldest Son to Travel; who accordingly Travelled, first into Holland, then into Italy, where he proceeded a Doctor of Physick, and so Returned into England, Excellently well Adorned with all the Accomplishments of a most ous and Useful Gentlemen. But this Worthy Person Dyed, about the year 1658. And this stned the Death of his Mother, e're the year same about; which more than Doubled the Grief of his Father. And these Afflictions were yet further Embittered by the Death of his Eldest Daughter, Mrs. Rogers, in Child-bed with her first Child; at whose Interment, though he could not but Express a deal of Sorrow, yet he did it with so much Patience, that, In Token, he said, of his Grounded & Joyful Hopes, to meet her again in the Morning of the Resurrectin, and of his Willingness to Resign her into the Hands of Him, who would make all Things work together for Good, he himself took