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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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Piscator Evangelicus.
THE LIFE OF Mr. THOMAS HOOKER.
§. 1. WHEN Toxaris met with his Countryman Anacharsis in Athens, he gave him this Invitation, Come along with me, and I will show Thee at once all the Wonders of Greece: whereupon he showed him Solon, as the Person in whom there Centered all the Glories of that City or Country. I shall now Invite my Reader to Behold at once the Wonders of New-England, and it is in one THOMAS HOOKER that he shall behold them: Even in that Hooker, whom a Worthy Writer would needs call, Saints HOOKER, for the same Reason, (he said) ⟨p. 4⟩and with the same Freedom, that Latimer, would speak of Saint •ILNEY, in his Commemorations. Tis that HOOKER, of whom I may venture to say, that the famous Romanist, who wrote a Book, De Tribus THOMIS, or, of Three THOMASes, meaning THOMAS the Apostle, THOMAS Becket, and Sir THOMAS MORE, did not a thousandth part so well sort his THOMAS's, as a New Englander might; if he should write a Book, De Duckus THOMIS, or, Of Two THOMAS's; and with THOMAS the Apostle, join our Celebrious THOMAS HOOKER: my One THOMAS, even our Apostolical HOOKER, would in Just Balances weigh down two of Campians Rebellious Archbishops, or bigoted Lord-Chancellors.
§. 1. WHEN Toxaris met with his Countryman Anacharsis in Athens, he gave him this Invitation, Come along with me, and I will shew Thee at once all the Wonders of Greece: whereupon he shewed him Solon, as the Person in whom there Centered all the Glories of that City or Countrey. I shall now Invite my Reader to Behold at once the Wonders of New-England, and it is in one THOMAS HOOKER that he shall behold them: Even in that Hooker, whom a Worthy Writer would needs call, Saints HOOKER, for the same Reason, (he said)