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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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'Twas of Geneva's Worthies said with Wonder, (Those Worthies Three) Farel was went to Thunder, Viret like Rain on tender Grass to shower, But Calvin, Lively Qracles to pour. ⟨p. 43⟩All These in Hooker's Spirit did Remain, A Son of Thunder, and a Shower of Rain; A Pourer forth of […] Oracles, In Saving Souls, The Sum of Miracles.
'Twas of Geneva's Worthies said with Wonder, (Those Worthies Three) Farel was went to Thunder, Viret like Rain on tender Grass to show'r, But Calvin, Lively Qracles to pour. ⟨p. 43⟩All These in Hooker's Spirit did Remain, A Son of Thunder, and a Show'r of Rain; A Pourer forth of 〈…〉 Oracles, In Saving Souls, The Summ of Miracles.
This was He, of whom his Pupil Mr. Ash, gives this Testimony; For his great Abilities, and glorious Services, both in This, and in the Other England, he Deserves a Place in the first Rank of them, whose Lives are of Late Recorded. And this was He, of whom his Reverend Contemporary, Mr. Ezekiel Rogers, tendered this for an Epitaph; in every Line whereof, methinks the Writer deserves a Reward equal to what Virgil had, when for every Line, referring to Marcellus in the end of his Sixth […] he received a Sum, not much less than Eighty Pounds in Money, or as ample a Requital as Cardinal Richleu gave to a Poet, when he bestowed upon him two thousand Sequins for a witty Conceit in One Verse, of but seven words, upon his Coat of Arms.
This was He, of whom his Pupil Mr. Ash, gives this Tellimony; For his great Abilities, and glorious Services, both in This, and in the Other England, he Deserves a Place in the first Rank of them, whose Lives are of Late Recorded. And this was He, of whom his Reverend Contemporary, Mr. Ezekiel Rogers, tendered this for an Epitaph; in every Line whereof, methinks the Writer deserves a Reward equal to what Virgil had, when for every Line, referring to Marcellus in the end of his Sixth he received a Sum, not much less than Eighty Pounds in Money, or as ample a Requital as Cardinal Richleu gave to a Poet, when he bestow'd upon him two thousand Sequins for a witty Conceit in One Verse, of but seven words, upon his Coat of Arms.