To which is prefixed, a Retraction of his former opinion concerning baptism. Boston, 1713. (47) A Treatise. I. Of Faith. II. Twelve . . . articles of Christian religion. III. A doctrinal conclusion. IV. Questions & Answers upon Church-government. [Boston], 1713. (48) In manuscript. Notes of Cotton's sermons, preserved by I. Mather. Also, sermons. In Amer. Antiquar. Soc. Lib., Worcester, Mass.
B. Biography and Criticism
Considerable biographical material will be found in Winthrop's Journal. For Cotton's position in the Mrs. Hutchinson case, fairly full records have been preserved in accounts of the trial, in Hutchinson, Hist. Mass. Bay, II, Appendix 2, 482-520; and in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. Sec. Series, 4, 159-191. A suggestive discussion is given in C. F. Adams' Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, Part II, The Antinomian Controversy. See also the Cotton Papers, in the Prince Library, listed in Winsor's catalogue, 150. No satisfactory life of Cotton has been written.
A censure of ... J. C, lately of New-England upon the way of Mr Hendon; expressed in some animadversions of his upon a letter of Mr Hendons, sometimes sent to Mr Elmeston, etc. [Two other parts.] London, 1656.
Blenkin, G. B. Boston, England, and John Cotton in 1621. N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg. 28.
Brooks, William Gray. John Cotton, "The Father of Boston. " [With portrait.] New Eng. Mag. Feb., 1887.
Cawdrey, Daniel. The Inconsistencie of the Independent way, With Scripture, and It Self. ... I. Vindiciarum with Mr. Cotton. Etc. London, 1651.
Clarke, Sam. Lives of Ten Eminent Divines. London, 1662.
Ellis, Geo. E. John Cotton in Church and State. International Review. 1880.
Emerson, Wm. An Historical Sketch of the 1st Church in Boston, from its formation to the present period, etc. Boston, 1812.
Ford, W. C. John Cotton's Moses, his judicials and abstract of the Laws of New England. Cambridge, 1902. Reprinted from Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc.
Gray, F. C. Remarks on the Early Laws of Mass. Bay, etc. 3 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. viii. [A Consideration of Cotton's share in forming the Body of Liberties.]
Hubbard, Rev. Wm. General History of New England. Chapters, 37-40. 2 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. v.
Maclure, A. W. Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England. Vol. 1. 1870.
Mather, Cotton. Johannes in Eremo. Memoirs, Relating to the Lives of the Ever-Memorable, Mr. John Cotton . . . Mr. John Norton, etc. Boston, 1695. Reprinted in Magnalia, III, 8. [The Cotton portion based on Whiting.]
Mead, Edwin D. John Cotton's Farewell Sermon to Winthrop's Company at Southampton. 3 Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. I, 101-115.
Norton, John. The Life and Death of the deservedly Famous Mr. John Cotton, the late Reverend Teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in New England. Collected out of the Writings and Information of . . . John Davenport . . . Samuel Whiting, etc. Cambridge, 1657. Reprinted, London, 1658, with the title: Abel being dead yet speaketh; or, the life and death of . . . John Cotton, etc. Re-issued as Memoirs of John Cotton, with preface and notes by E. Pond. 1842.
