Johannes in eremo. Memoirs, relating to the lives, of the ever-memorable, Mr. John Cotton,…

§. 4. Upon the Desires of Emanuel-College, Mr. Cotton was not only Removed unto that College, but also Preferred unto a Fellowship in it; in order whereunto, he did according to the Critical and Laudable Statutes of the House, go through a very severe Examen of his Fitness for ⟨p. 6⟩such a Station; wherein 'twas particularly Remarked, that the Poser trying his Hebrew-skill by the Third Chapter of Isaiah, a Chapter which, containing more Hard Words, than any one Paragraph of the Bible, might therefore have puzzled a very good Hebrician, yet he made nothing of it. He was afterwards, the Head Lecturer, the Dean, the Catechist, in that Famous College; and became a Tutor to many Scholars, who afterwards proved Famous Persons, and had cause to Bless God, for the Faithful, and Ingenious and Laborious Communicativeness of this their Tutor. Here, all his Academical Exercises, whether in Disputations or in Common-places, or whatever else, did so smell of the, Lamp, that the Wit, the Strength, the Gravity, and the Fullness, both of Reason and of Reading in them, caused him to be much Admired by the Sparkling Wits of the University. But One thing among the Rest, which caused a Great Notice to be taken of him, throughout the whole University, was his Funeral Oration upon Dr. Some, the Master of Peter House, wherein he approved himself such a Master of Periclean, or Ciceronian Oratory, that the Auditors were even ready to have Acclaimed, Now Vox Hominem Sonat! And that which added unto the Reputation, thus Raised for him, was, an University-Sermon, wherein Aiming more to Preach Self, than Christ, he used such Florid Strains, as extremely Recommended him, unto the most, who Relished ⟨p. 7⟩the Wisdom of words above the Words of Wisdom: though the Pompous Eloquence of that Sermon, afterwards gave such a Distaste unto his own Renewed Soul, that with a Sacred Indignation he threw his Notes into the Fire.

§. 4. Upon the Desires of Emanuel-Colledge, Mr. Cotton was not only Removed unto that Colledge, but also Preferred unto a Fellowship in it; in order whereunto, he did according to the Critical and Laudable Statutes of the House, go through a very severe Examen of his Fitness for ⟨p. 6⟩such a Station; wherein 'twas particularly Remarked, that the Poser trying his Hebrew-skill by the Third Chapter of Isaiah, a Chapter which, containing more Hard Words, than any one Paragraph of the Bible, might therefore have puzzled a very good Hebrician, yet he made nothing of it. He was afterwards, the Head Lecturer, the Dean, the Catechist, in that Famous Colledge; and became a Tutor to many Scholars, who afterwards proved Famous Persons, and had cause to Bless God, for the Faithful, and Ingenious and Laborious Communicativeness of this their Tutor. Here, all his Academical Exercises, whether in Disputations or in Common-places, or whatever else, did so smell of the, Lamp, that the Wit, the Strength, the Gravity, and the Fulness, both of Reason and of Reading in them, caused him to be much Admired by the Sparkling Wits of the University. But One thing among the Rest, which caused a Great Notice to be taken of him, throughout the whole University, was his Funeral Oration upon Dr. Some, the Master of Peter House, wherein he approved himself such a Master of Periclaean, or Ciceronian Oratory, that the Auditors were even ready to have Acclamed, Now Vox Hominem Sonat! And that which added unto the Reputation, thus Raised for him, was, an University-Sermon, wherein Aiming more to Preach Self, than Christ, he used such Florid Strains, as extremely Recommended him, unto the most, who Relished