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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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When he first Set up his Lecture, there was more Profaneness than Devotion in the Town: and the Multitude of Inns and Shops in the Town produced one particular Disorder, of Peoples filling the Streets with unsuitable Behaviours, ⟨p. 10⟩after the Public Services of the Lords-Day were over. But by the Power of his Ministry in Public, and by the Prudence of his Carriage in Private, he quickly cleared the Streets of this Disorder, and the Sabbath came to be very visibly Sanctified among the People.
When he first Set up his Lecture, there was more Prophaneness than Devotion in the Town: and the Multitude of Inns and Shops in the Town produced one particular Disorder, of Peoples filling the Streets with unsuitable Behaviours, ⟨p. 10⟩after the Publick Services of the Lords-Day were over. But by the Power of his Ministry in Publick, and by the Prudence of his Carriage in Private, he quickly cleared the Streets of this Disorder, and the Sabbath came to be very visibly Sanctified among the People.
§ 7. The Joy of the People in this Light was but for a Season. The Conscientious Non-Conformity of Mr. Hooker to some Rites of the Church of England, then vigorously pressed, especially upon such Able and Useful Ministers, as were most likely to be Laid aside by their scrupling of those Rites; made it necessary for him to Lay down his Ministry in Chelmsford, when he had been about four years there, Employed in it. Hereupon, at the Request of several Eminent Persons, he kept a School, in his own Hired House, having our▪ Mr. John Eliot for his Usher, at little •addow not far from Chelmsford; […] he managed his Charge with such Discretion, such Authority, and such Efficacy, that, able to do more with a Word, or a Look, than most other men could have done by a Severer Discipline, he did very great Service to the Church of God, in the Education of such, as afterwards proved themselves not a little Serviceable. I have in my Hands, a Manuscript, written by the Hands of our Blessed ELIOI, wherein he gives a very Great Account