The history and antiquities of Boston .. . on, had the edu-cation of a lawyer, bestowed by his friendsupon him, in hopes of his being the bettercapacitated thereby to recover the estate where-of his flimily had been wronged. — Magnalia,B. iii. 14. X Dr. Sibbs was a friend of, and intimatewith, many of the fathers of New name with that of our John Davenport issigned to several prefaces of the old Puritanquartos. They accompanied some of Dr. Pres-tons works: The Saints Daily Exercise,now before me, is one. I have also before me, Two Sermons of his, in a 4to tract, Preached to the hon
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . on, had the edu-cation of a lawyer, bestowed by his friendsupon him, in hopes of his being the bettercapacitated thereby to recover the estate where-of his flimily had been wronged. — Magnalia,B. iii. 14. X Dr. Sibbs was a friend of, and intimatewith, many of the fathers of New name with that of our John Davenport issigned to several prefaces of the old Puritanquartos. They accompanied some of Dr. Pres-tons works: The Saints Daily Exercise,now before me, is one. I have also before me, Two Sermons of his, in a 4to tract, Preached to the honourable Society of GrayesInne, lune the 21 and 28, 1G35. Who thenext Lords day following, died, and restedfrom all his labours. A knowledge of thesesermons would have been important to , who places his birth in 1579, at Sud-bury in Suffolk. Mr. Neal, and those who havefollowed him in their accounts of Dr. Sibbs,write his name Sibbes; but in the titles of allhis books which I have seen (and they aremany) his name is printed 1633.] cottons marriage. 159 It was under the preaching of the Reverend Mr. William Perkins,*a strict follower of Calvin, that he became convinced of the errors ofthe Established Church ; but he for a time resisted and smotheredthose convictions, through a vain persuasion that if he became a godly-man it would spoil him for being a learned one ; and while he couldnot forego his attendance on such preaching, from his great naturallove of truth, yet, when he heard the bell toll for the funeral ofMr. Perkins, his mind secretly rejoiced in his deliverance. But completed the work which Mr. Perkins had begun upon theyouthful mind of Cotton. For a remembrance of which, and his thank-fulness to Dr. Sibbs, he procured his portrait, which he placed inthat part of his house where he might oftenest look upon it. Mr. Cotton had become somewhat obnoxious to many on account ofthe change in his principles before leaving the University ; and he wasel
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