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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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§. 23. Although he had a Notable Hand ⟨p. 33⟩it the Discussing and Adjusting of Controversial Points, yet he would hardly ever handle any Polemical Divinity in the Pulpit; but the very Spirit of his Ministry lay in the points of the most Practical Religion, and the Grand Concerns of a Sinner's Preparation for, Implantation in, and Salvation by, the Glorious Lord Jesus Christ. And in these Discourses he would frequently Intermix, most affectionate Warnings of the Declensions, which would quickly Befall the Churches and Christians of New-England.
§. 23. Although he had a Notable Hand ⟨p. 33⟩it the Discussing and Adjusting of Controversal Points, yet he would hardly ever handle any Polemical Divinity in the Pulpit; but the very Spirit of his Ministry lay in the points of the most Practical Religion, and the Grand Concerns of a Sinner's Preparation for, Implantation in, and Salvation by, the Glorious Lord Jesus Christ. And in these Discourses he would frequently Intermix, most affectionate Warnings of the Declensions, which would quickly Besal the Churches and Christians of New-England.
Many Volumes of the Sermons Preached by him were since Printed; and this Account is to be given of them.
Many Volumns of the Sermons Preached by him were since Printed; and this Account is to be given of them.
While he was Fellow of Immanuel-College, he entertained a special Inclination to those Principles of Divinity, which concerned, The Application of Redemption; and that which eminently fitted him for the Handling of those Principles, was, That he had been from his Youth Trained up, in the Experience of those Humiliations and Consolations, and Sacred Communions, which belong to the New-Creature; and he had most critically compared his own Experience, with the Accounts, which the Quick and Powerful Word of God, gives of those Glorious Things. Accordingly, he Preached, first more briefly on these Points, whilst he was a Catechist in Immanuel College, in a more Scholastic way; which was most agreeable to his present Station;