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Excerpt from Discourses on the Whole 55th Chapter of Isaiah: Preparatory to Communion at the Lord's-Table, to Which Is Added, the Author's Last Sermon
Sometime in (or perhaps a little before) the Year 1680, when the Prevalence of Popery greatly threatned 1relaoa', his Father Mr. 'tbomar Walter removed thence, and came over to New England; bringing with him this his hopeful Son. Here he was firfi put to learn a Trade but it was foon found, his Genius lay quite another Way, and in chned him wholly to Letters. His Book was his Delight. Accordingly, with a View to perfect his school-educa tron, and prepare him for the College, he was committed to the Care of the famous Mr. Cheever, then Matter of the Publick Grammar School in Baftan; who, upon 3 (hurt Examination and Experiment, return'd him to his Father, with a great Encomium, pronouncing him already well ?ock'd with comet Learning, and abundantly fur mlh'd to enter upon dcaa'emz'cal Studies.
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