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Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully…
Corderius americanus. An essay upon the good education of children. And what may hopefully be attempted, for the hope of the flock. In a funeral sermon upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever. The ancient and Honourable master of the Free-School in Boston. Who left off, but when mortality took him off, in August, 1708. the ninety fourth year of his age. : With an elegy and an epitaph upon him. / By one that was once a scholar to him. ; [One line epigram in Latin]
Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1708
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We must not wonder at it then, if the Best of our Masters, be thought attended with their Imperfections. Whatever mine might have, they are buried. And we generally concur in acknowledging, That New-England has never known a better. I am sure, I have as much Reason to appear for him, as ever Crito for his Master Socrates,
The Short History of his Long Usefulness, is to be comprised in the Ensuing Articles.
The Short History of his Long Usefulness, is to be comprized in the Ensuing Articles.
He was Born in London, many years before the Birth of New-England. It was Jan. 25. 1614.
He arrived into this Country, in June 16•7. with the rest of those Good men, who sought a peaceable Secession in an American Wilderness, for the pure Evangelical, and Instituted Worship of our Great Redeemer; to which he kept a strict Adherence all his Days. He then Sojourned first a little while, part of a Year, at Boston; so that at Boston, he