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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.
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. ⟨p. 45⟩Mort Tua Infandum Cogor Renovare docrem, Quippe Tua videat Terra Nov-Angla suam. Dignus eras, Aquila similis, Renovasse Jurentam, Et Fato in Terris Candidiore frui. Tu Domus Emanuel, Sorer Augustissima, Matter Mille Prophetarum, Tu mihi Testis eris. Te Testem appello, quondam Chelmsfordia, Calais Proxima; Te praco sustulit ille Yuus. Now tulit hac Chalcas, Arcis Phabique Sacerdos, Nam populo Sperni sic sua sacra videt. Vidit et ex Rostris Gensi Pradicere vatem Bella, quod in Christum Tota Rebellis erat. Quem Patria exegit, ferus Hostis Episcopus; Hostis Hune minus, in Batavis, vexat amara Febris. Post varios casus, Quassata Nov Anglia, tandem Ramifer' inde Tibi Diva Columba venit. Ige Tuos Cxtus Ornat, pascitque Fideles, Laudthus Innumerts addit et ille Tuss. Dulcis Amicus erat, Pastorque Insignis, et Altus Dothus, Eloquio, Moribus, Ingenio. Proh Pudor! Ereptum Te vivi vidimus, et Non Excessura […] a Struximus Insidias! Insidias precibus, Lacrymisque perennibus, unde Semita Calestis […] clasa soret, Sed Frustra […] Lustra per ECCKIRUS ter quinque Viator, erat: jam Casestem patriom Possidet ille suam.