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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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Chrysostomus Nov-Anglorum.
THE LIFE OF Mr. JOHN DAVENPORT.
§. 1. A Noted Author of more than Twice Seven Treatises, and Chaplain to two Successive Queens of England, was that Christopher Davenport, whose Assumed Name was, Franciscus a Sancta clara. And in Mr. Rashworth▪ Collection of Speeches, made in the Celebrated Parliament, 1640. I find Sir, Benjamin Rudyard; using these Words; Sancta Clara, hath Published, That if a Synod were held, Non intermixti• Paritanis, Setting Puritans aside, Our Articles and, Their Religion would soon be Agreed. They have so brought it to pass, that under the ⟨p. 2⟩Name of Puritans, all our Religion is branded Whosoever Squares his Actions by any Rule, either Divine or Humane, He is a PURITAN: Whosoever would be Governed by the Kings Laws, He is a PURITAN!—Whether, this Account of Matters be allowed or no; there was, though not a Brother (as a certain Wooden Historian, in his Athenae Oxonienses, has reported) yet a Kinsman of that Sancta Clara; who was among the most Eminent Puritans of those Days; And this was our Holy and Famous Mr. John Davenport: One of whom I may, on many Accounts use the Elogy, with which the Learned still mention Salmasius, Vir •unguam Satis Laudatus, nec Temere sine Laud nominandus.
§. 1. A Noted Author of more than Twice Seven Treatises, and Chaplain to two Successive Queens of England, was that Christopher Davenport, whose Assumed Name was, Franciscus a Sancta clara. And in Mr. Rashworth Collection of Speeches, made in the Celebrated Parlaiment, 1640. I find Sir, Benjamin Rudyard; using these Words; Sancta Clara, hath Published, That if a Synod were held, Non intermixti Paritanis, Setting Puritans aside, Our Articles and, Their Religion would soon be Agreed. They have so brought it to pass, that under the