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Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
Preface: A general PREFACE giving some Account of the AUTHOR, and the following Pieces.
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.
A general PREFACE giving some Account of the AUTHOR, and the following Pieces.
TO oblige the Reader, I would give a brief Account of the very pious, judicious and renowned Author of the following Pieces, from some of the best Authorities.
Dr. Cotton Mather tells us, He was born at Towcester near Northampton in England, Nov. 5. 1605; went to the University of Cambridge when he was 15 Years of Age; was there converted to God in 1624, and took his Degree of Master of Arts; afterwards engaged in the Ministry; set Sail from Harwich in England for New-England in the latter End of 1634, but by a great Storm was driven and forced to land at Yarmouth in Norfolk, and lived the Winter at Bastwick in that County; in the Spring of 1635 went up to London; in July sailed from Gravesend; Oct. 3, arrived at Boston; whence in a Day or two his Friends at Cambridge, who had come before, gladly fetched him, and he became their Pastor till he died.
Dr. Cotton Mather tells us, He was born at Towcester near Northampton in England, Nov. 5. 1605; went to the University of Cambridge when he was 15 Years of Age; was there converted to God in 1624, and took his Degree of Master of Arts; afterwards engaged in the Ministry; set Sail from Harwich in England for New-England in the latter End of 1634, but by a great Storm was driven and forc'd to land at Yarmouth in Norfolk, and liv'd the Winter at Bastwick in that County; in the Spring of 1635 went up to London; in July sailed from Gravesend; Oct. 3, arrived at Boston; whence in a Day or two his Friends at Cambridge, who had come before, gladly fetched him, and he became their Pastor till he died.