On the wisdom of brevity (John Cotton)

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Moreover that which adorneth the exactness of the matter of this discourse, is, Pithy Brevity, compacting as many things as words together; that as it was the constant desire and affectation, and expression of Dr Preston, to live long in a little time; So it appeareth to be the serious care and endeavour of this our beloved Brother, to speak much in few words.

John Cotton, ‘To the judicious Christian reader’ in John Norton, The orthodox evangelist. Or A treatise wherein many great evangelical truths (not a few whereof are much opposed and eclipsed in this perilous hour of the passion of the Gospel) are briefly discussed, cleared, and confirmed: as a further help, for the begetting, and establishing of the faith which is in Jesus. As also the state of the blessed, where; of the condition of their souls from the instant of their dissolution: and of their persons after their resurrection (London: Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd, 1654).
 
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