§. 4. Let my Reader, thus Prepared, now Entertain himself, as far as he pleases, with our Four JOHNS, to whose Lives, I have, upon the Counsel and Command of an Ever-Honoured Parent, Appendiced the Life of a Famous THOMAS, in this Publication: JOHNS, with whom among the Five or Six Hundred Noted Persons of that Name, Celebrated by One Historian, I find not many that were Worthy to be Compared; JOHNS, fuller of Light and Grace and the Good Spirit, than all those Four or Five and Twenty of that Name, who have Sat in the Chair that Pretends to Infallibility. And, if he pleases, Let him see that Old Little Observations Confirmed, that, as the Name Henry, has been Happy in Kings, Elizabeth, in Queens, Edward, in Lawyers, William, in Physicians, Francis, in Scholars, Robert, in Soldiers and States-men, So, JOHN, has been happy in Divines. But let him Consider these Lives, as tendered unto the Public, upon an Account no less, than that of keeping Alive, as far as this poor Essay may Contribute thereunto, the Interests of Dying Religion in our Churches. I Remember a Learned mans Conjecture, That [in 1 Tim. 3. 15.] it is Timothy, ⟨p. 25⟩and not, The Church, which is called, The Pillar and Ground of Faith: Such Able, Holy, and Faithful Ministers, as Timothy, are the Great Proclamers, and Preservers of Truth, for the Church of God: Such were these Famous JOHNS, while they Lived, and now they are Dead, I have done my Endeavour that they may still be Such, unto the Churches, to whom I owe my All. I'll say but This. The Last words of the most Renowned Prebend of Canterbury, Dr. Peter du Moulin, who dyed, a very Old Man, about Eleven years ago, were, Since Calvinism is Cried down [Actum est de Religione Christi apud Anglos] Christianity is in Danger to be last in the English Nation. Alluding to what he said, about his JOHN CALVIN, I will take Leave to say with respect unto our JOHN COTTON, and the rest that here accompany him, Christianity will be Lost among us, if their Faith and Zeal, must all be Buried with them: Which, God Forbid!
§. 4. Let my Reader, thus Prepared, now Entertain himself, as far as he pleases, with our Four JOHNS, to whose Lives, I have, upon the Counsil and Command of an Ever-Honoured Parent, Appendiced the Life of a Famous THOMAS, in this Publication: JOHNS, with whom among the Five or Six Hundred Noted Persons of that Name, Celebrated by One Historian, I find not many that were Worthy to be Compared; JOHNS, fuller of Light and Grace and the Good Spirit, than all those Four or Five and Twenty of that Name, who have Sat in the Chair that Pretends to Infallibility. And, if he pleases, Let him see that Old Little Observations Confirmed, that, as the Name Henry, has been Happy in Kings, Elizabeth, in Queens, Edward, in Lawyers, William, in Physicians, Francis, in Scholars, Robert, in Souldiers and States-men, So, JOHN, has been happy in Divines. But let him Consider these Lives, as tendered unto the Publick, upon an Account no less, than that of keeping Alive, as far as this poor Essay may Contribute thereunto, the Interests of Dying Religion in our Churches. I Remember a Learned mans Conjecture, That [in 1 Tim. 3. 15.] it is Timothy, ⟨p. 25⟩and not, The Church, which is called, The Pillar and Ground of Faith: Such Able, Holy, and Faithful Ministers, as Timothy, are the Great Proclamers, and Preservers of Truth, for the Church of God: Such were these Famous JOHNS, while they Lived, and now they are Dead, I have done my Endeavour that they may still be Such, unto the Churches, to whom I owe my All. I'l say but This. The Last words of the most Renowned Pr•ebend of Canterbury, Dr. Peter du Moulin, who dyed, a very Old Man, about Eleven years ago, were, Since Calvinism is Cryed down [Actum est de Religione Christi apud Anglos] Christianity is in Danger to be last in the English Nation. Alluding to what he said, about his JOHN CALVIN, I will take Leave to say with respect unto our JOHN COTTON, and the rest that here accompany him, Christianity will be Lost among us, if their Faith and Zeal, must all be Buried with them: Which, God Forbid!
