 | Amanda Porterfield - Religion - 1991 - 218 pages
...meaning were substantial. As an English contemporary of Cotton's, Samuel Ward, put it: "Of all the men in the world, I envy Mr. Cotton, of Boston, most;...liberty, and I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine."65 Cotton's interpretation of Solomon's love poetry was appealing not only because of its erotic... | |
 | Janice Knight - History - 1994 - 354 pages
...of Mr. Cottons troubles to deliver him out of them."63 Samuel Ward remarked Cotton's good fortune: "Of all men in the world I envy Mr. Cotton, of Boston,...liberty, and I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine."64 It might well be argued that secrecy was finally more corrosively radical than a more visible... | |
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Of all men in the world, I envy Mr. Cotton of Boston most, for he doth nothing in way of conformity, and yet hath his liberty ; and I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine. 
