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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
You have done Right Well, Reverend Brother, in that you have, after a Brotherly manner, unto the Promoting of this Affair, in the Communion of Saints, invited us, who belong to the same Mystical Body, with your selves, under One Head, our Lord Jesus Christ.
You have done Right Well, Reverend Brother, in that you have, after a Brotherly manner, unto the Promoting of this Affayr, in the Communion of Saints, invited us, who belong to the same Mystical Body, with your selves, under One Head, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Dica Vero non est Orthodoxis impingenda, quasi Optatissimae illi Paci, qu•e inter Scissas Evangelicas Ecclesias qu•eritur, Offendiculum Posuerint, et Remoram, qui, Necessitate Pestulante, ea••utuntur Libertate Refu••ndi Errores, quam Pax non debet impedire: adeoque suo Exemplo futuram pacem pr•emuniant, a […] in Excessu positis.—Quippe quod Sincere de Erroribus Judicare, et Errores tamen in Fratribus Infirmis Tolerare, Utrumque Judicamus esse Apostolic•e Doctrin•e Consonum, Toleratio Vero Fratrum Infirmorum, non debet esse absque Redargutione, Sed •antum absque Rejection.
Dica Vero non est Orthodoxis impingenda, quasi Optatissimae illi Paci, qu•e inter Scissas Evangelicas Ecclesias qu•eritur, Offendiculum Posuerint, et Remoram, qui, Necessitate Pestulante, ea••utuntur Libertate Refu••ndi Errores, quam Pax non debet impedire: adeoque suo Exemplo futuram pacem pr•emuniant, a in Excessu positis.—Quippe quod Sincere de Erroribus Judicare, et Errores tamen in Fratribus Infirmis Tolerare, Utrumque Judicamus esse Apostolice Doctrine Consonum, Toleratio Vero Fratrum Infirmorum, non debet esse absque Redargutione, Sed antum absque Rejectione.