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After a career of more than twenty years in England, John Cotton joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony and became a minister of the Boston church, where he was a powerful voice, though his involvement in several crucial controversies for a time limited his authority. Though recognized as a spokesman for the congregational system of church government and a defender of the New England Way, he regarded himself as chiefly a preacher, and of his thirty-seven publications, many merely pamphlets, nineteen are sermons or sermon collections.
The son of a lawyer, John Cotton attended grammar school in his natal place, Derby, in the English midlands. In 1597 he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and, after completing undergraduate studies, he became a fellow of Emmanuel College, a Puritan institution that was to supply the Massachusetts Bay Colony with several of its leaders. He remained at Cambridge for some fifteen years, during which time he was influenced by three great Puritan preachers, William Perkins, Laurence Chaderton, master of Emmanuel College, and Richard Sibbes.
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