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Cotton, John - 1584–1652, Puritan clergyman in England and Massachusetts, b. Derbyshire, educated at Cambridge. Imbued with Puritan doctrines, he won many followers during his 20 years as vicar of the rich and influential parish of St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire. He was summoned to appear before the High Court of Commission (1632), but instead of appearing he resigned and fled

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The Influence of Plymouth Colony Separatism on Salem: An Interpretation of John Cotton's Letter of 1630 to Samuel Skelton, in Church History » Read Now
by Slayden Yarbrough. 14 pgs.

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...on Salem: An Interpretation of John Cottons Letter of 1630 to Samuel Skelton...placed on a letter written by John Cotton on 2 October 1630, while he was...October 1630 , in...
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John Fiske's Funeral Elegy on John Cotton, in Early American Literature » Read Now
by Astrid Schmitt-v. Muhlenfels. 14 pgs.

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...JOHN FISKES FUNERAL Elegy on JOHN COTTON Astrid Schmitt-v. Muhlenfels...Peter Bulkeley, Elijah Corlet, John Cotton, John Fiske, Ezekiel Rogers...an equally praiseworthy...
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The Face of God: Puritan Iconography in Early American Poetry, Sermons, and Tombstone Carving, in Early American Literature » Read Now
by Lynn Haims. 33 pgs.

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...Calvins and Amess interpretations. John Cotton explained that the Second Commandment...should be noted, however, that John Cotton explains this text in a strictly...William...
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The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England » Read Now
by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe. 298 pgs.

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...departing for New England in 1630, John Cotton interpreted the migration in these...2 John Cotton, Gods Promise to His Plantations...was echoed a decade later when John...
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Puritanism in Early America » Read Now
by George M. Waller. 115 pgs.

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...William Hubbard, Nathaniel Ward, John Cotton, and the Mathers, met with the...3 In 1639, John Cotton, condemned as a "false principle...was elsewhere. "There is," said...
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Puritan Poetics: the World, the Flesh, and God, in Early American Literature » Read Now
by Robert Daly. 27 pgs.

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...nature and function of poetry. John Cotton declared that a man may be said...between material and mental idols. John Cotton, for example, argued that the...recognitions of...