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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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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.
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 Apostolic•e Doctrin•e Consonum, Toleratio Vero Fratrum Infirmorum, non debet esse absque Redargutione, Sed •antum absque Rejectione.
Nevertheless, tis not to be made an Article of Complaint against the Orthodox, as if they would Hinder or Delay, the Peace desired so much among the Reformed Churches, because they do, as Necessity shall call for it, use that Liberty of Refuting Errors, which Peace ought to be no Bar unto; and by their Example, would rescue the future Peace from the Extremes wherewith it would be rendered Faulty—For we Reckon, that as Well to Judge what things are Errors, as