Ecclesiastes. The life of the Reverend & Excellent Jonathan Mitchel; a Pastor of the church, and a glory of the colledge [sic], in Cambridge,... (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"THERE have been few Churches in the World so lifted up to Heaven in Respect of a Succession of Supereminent Ministers of the Gospel, as the Church in Cambridge ha's been. Hooker, Shepard, Mitchel, Oakes (all of them yours) were Great Lights. You know that if Light ha's been brought into a Room, when it is Removed, the Place becomes Darker, than if never any such Light had been there. A Learned Pen in an Epistle Dedicatory to the Inhabitants of Boston in Lincolnshire puts them in mind of what an Happy People they once were,* while under the Teaching of Mr. Cotton who was from them removed to plant Churches for Christ, in this American Desart: And pray's them to Consider, That as Empires and Kingdoms, so particular Churches have had their Periods. Bethel has proved a Beth-haven: In after times we find young profane..." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.