John Cotton (minister) Quotes

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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

John Cotton

There is never peace where full liberty is not given, nor never stable peace where more than full liberty is granted.

John Cotton

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

John Cotton

John Cotton

John Cotton

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Born: December 4, 1585

Died: December 23, 1652 (aged 67)

Bio: John Cotton was a clergyman in England and the American colonies and, by most accounts, the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Known for:

Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes (1646)
The way of Congregational churches cleared (1648)
John Cotton on the Churches of New England

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