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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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§. 3. This Pious man was both an hard Student, and a Great Preacher. His Custom was to sit up very late at his Lucubrations; whereby, though he found no sensible Damage himself, and never felt his Head ache, yet his Counsel was that other Students would not follow his Example. But the Effects of his Industry were seen by all •en, in his approving himself upon all Occasions, An Universal Scholar. As for the Sermons, wherewith be fed the Church of God, he Wrote them for the most part, more largely than the most of Ministers; and he Spoke them with a Gravity, an Energy, an Acceptableness, whereto few Ministers ever have arrived: indeed his Greatest Enemies, when they heard him, would acknowledge him to be among the best of Preachers. The Ablest men about London were his nearest Friends; among whom he held a very particular Correspondence with Dr. Preston; He, when he ⟨p. 4⟩Died, le•t his Notes with Mr. Davenport, by him to be Published; and accordingly with Dr. Sibbs, you […] Mr. Davenport signing some of their Dedications.
§. 3. This Pious man was both an hard Student, and a Great Preacher. His Custome was to sit up very late at his Lucubrations; whereby, though he found no sensible Damage himself, and never felt his Head ake, yet his Counsil was that other Students would not follow his Exemple. But the Effects of his Industry were seen by all •en, in his approving himself upon all Occasions, An Universal Scholar. As for the Sermons, wherewith be fed the Church of God, he Wrote them for the most part, more largely than the most of Ministers; and he Spoke them with a Gravity, an Energy, an Acceptableness, whereto few Ministers ever have arrived: indeed his Greatest Enemies, when they heard him, would acknowledge him to be among the best of Preachers. The Ablest men about London were his nearest Friends; among whom he held a very particular Correspondence with Dr. Preston; He, when he ⟨p. 4⟩Dy'd, le•t his Notes with Mr. Davenport, by him to be Published; and accordingly with Dr. Sibbs, you 〈…〉 Mr. Davenport signing some of their Dedications.