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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
EPITAPHIUM.
THOMAS HOOKER. Heu! Pietas; Heu! prisca Fides.
Or, for a more extended EPITAPH, we may take the Abridgement of his Life, as offered in some Lines of Mr. ELIJAH CORLET, that memorable old School master in Cambridge, from whose Education our College and Country, has Received so many of its Worthy men, that he is himself Worthy to have his Name Celebrated in no Less a Paragraph of our Church History, than That wherein I may Introduce him Endeavouring to Celebrate the Name of our Great HOOKER; unto this purpose.
Or, for a more extended EPITHAPH, we may take the Abridgment of his Life, as offered in some Lines of Mr. ELIJAH CORLET, that memorable old School master in Cambridge, from whose Education our Colledge and Countrey, has Received so many of its Worthy men, that he is himself Worthy to have his Name Celebrated in no Less a Paragraph of our Church History, than That wherein I may Introduce him Endeavouring to Celebrate the Name of our Great HOOKER; unto this purpose.
Si mea cum Vestris, valuissent vota, Nov-Angli, HOOKERUS Yardo viserat Astra Gradu. Te, Reverend Senex, Sic Te deleximus omnes, Ipsa In visa forent ut tihi Jura poli.