THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
introduction because of statements concerning the authorship, purpose, and contents of different books.
Bibliography: R. Beazley, The Dawn of Modern Geography, i. 273-303 ct passim, London, 1897.
COSTA, IZAAK DA. See D v Costa.
COSTA RICA. 8ee Central America.
COTELERIUS, JOHANNES BAPTISTA (JEAN- BAPTISTE COTELIER) : French classical scholar; b. at Nimes (30 m. n.e. of Montpellier) Dec, 1627; d. at Paris .Vug. 19, 1686. In 1641 he went to Paris, where he studied philosophy and theology, and became a doctor of the Sorbonne in ](;48. In 1667 he was commissioned by the minister Colbert to investigate and catalogue the Greek manuscripts of the Royal Library, and in 1676 he was appointed [irofessor of Greek at the College de France. He attained high fame as a church historian by his edition of the apostohc Fathers, entitled Sanctorum Patrum qui temporibus apostolicis floruerunt, Barnabce, dementis, Hermce, Ignatii, Polycarpi, opera edita et non eclita (2 vols., Paris, 1672). The most of tlie copies of this edition were destroyed by a fire in the College Montaigu, but a second and third edition was prepared by J. Leclerc (2 vols., Antwerp, 169S; Amsterdam, 1724). He also edited other documents of ecclesiastical antiquity in Homiliw quattuor in Psalmos et interpretatio pro- -pJietre Danielis (Paris, 1661), which he ascribed to Cluj'sostom, and in Ecclesice Grwcoe monumenta (3 vols,, 1677-88), of which a fourth volume appeared posthumously as Analecta Grceca (1692).
(C. Pfender.)
Bibliography: A letter by S. Baluze, which follows the preface to vol. ii. of Leclerc's ed. of the Patres, ut sup.; Nic^ron, Memoires, iv. 243 sqq.
COTTA. See Vestments and Insignia, Eccle-
.SIASTIf'AL.
COTTA, URSULA. See Luther, Martin.
COTTERILL, THOMAS: Hymnologist; b. at C:innock (15 m. n.n.w. of Birmingham), Staffordshire, Dec. 4, 1779; d. at Sheffield Dec. 29, 1823. He was a student and fellow of St. John's, Cambridge (B.A., 1801; M.A., 1805); became curate of Tutbury and of Lane End, Staffordsliire, in 1803 and 1808, respectively; perpetual curate of St. Paul's, Sheffield, 1817. He was one of the editors of A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, published at Uttoxetcr, Staffordshire, 1805, and with the help of James Montgomery (q.v.) compiled a Selection of Psalms and Hymns (Sheffield, ISIO; 8th and most important ed., 1819). The use of hymns in the English service was not yet established, and an attempt by Cotterill to force his book upon his congregation led to a lawsuit; the dispute was compromised by jircparing a new edition (9th), London, 1820, in which the number of hymns was greatly reduced and those printed were approved by Edward Harcourt, archbishop of York. This book had great influence upon thehymnody of the Church of England and is remarkable for the freedom with which the ^ (•rses of others printed in it are altered from their original form or rewritten. Cotterill also published a book of Family Prayers (2d ed., London, 1816).
Bibliography: S. W. DufEeld, English Hymns, pp. 53-54, New York, 1886; Julian, Hymnology, pp. 263-264.
COTTON, JOHN: Puritan, early minister ol Boston; b. at Derby, England, Dec. 4, 1584 (baptized at St. Alkniund's, Derby, Dec. 15, 1584); d. in Boston Dec. 23, 1652. He studied at Derby Grammar School, and Trinity and Emmanuel colleges, Cambridge (B.A., 1604 or earlier; M.A., 1606; B.D., 1613); became fellow of Emmanuel (not later than 1607), dean, and catechist, and distinguished himself as tutor, orator, and scholar. In 1612 he became vicar of St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, and gained there a great reputation for learning and piety, as well as for Puritan inclinations, which steadily became stronger. In July, 1633, to escape from a summons to appear before the High Commission Court in London and answer to a charge of not kneeling at the Sacrament and discarding some other ritual observances, he fled to America, landing in September. In October he was ordained " teacher " of the First Church in Boston and colleague of John Wilson, and soon became the most influential person in the community.* His reputation continued great in Puritan circles in England, and in 1642 he was strongly inclined to comply with pressing entreaties to return. He engaged in controversy with Roger \M11iams and defended the latter's expulsion from Massachusetts. In the antinomian dispute he was at first inclined to side with his enthusiastic admirer Mrs. Hutchinson (whose son, Edward, had accompanied him on his flight to America), but ended as her opponent (see Antinomianism and Antinomian Controversies, II., 2).
John Cotton's writings were numerous and deal with a wide variety of subjects. The " bibliography " of Dr. H. M. Dexter's Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years (New York, 1880) has 36 entries ascribed to him. For other lists consult Allen's American Biographical Dictionary (Boston, 1857), sub titulo; J. S. Clark, in the Congregational Quarterly, iii. 133-148 (Apr., 1861); and the article John Cotton, by Alexander Gordon, in DNB, supplement, vol. ii. All were published in London, and many in two or more editions. Some of the more noteworthy are: Abstract of the Laws of New England, a summary of Jewish laws .supposed to be of perpetual obligation (1641; reprinted in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Societ:/, ser. i., vol. v [1816], 171-192; of. W. C. Ford, John Cotton's Moses, his Judicialls and Abstract of the Laws o) New England, in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Oct., 1902); The Pouring Out of the Sei-en Vials, or an exposition of the 16th chapter of the Revelation, with an application of it to our times (1642; the fifth vial is made to mean episcopal government); The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and Power thereof according to the Word of God (1644; reprinted Boston, 1852; considered one ot the most authoritative expositions of Congregationalism); Milk for Babes, Drawn out of the Breasts of both Testaments, chiefly for the spiritual nourishment of Boston babes in eitlier England, but may be of like use for any children, a catechism {l<;4li; and many subsequent editions, one at Cambridge, 1656; included in the New Englaiid Primer; {\)tton Mather calls it " peculiarly the catechism of New England," and says it will " be valued and studied and improved until Now England cease to be New England "); The Bloody Tenet Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb (1647;
*"He was the ecclesiastical leader of the Massachusetts colony, a piirt of about all that wa.s done in Church and State till his death " (Walker, Creals and Platforms of Congregationalism, 184, note 31. " He very quickly came to wield a power in that tliciicratic soUlement akin to that now exercised by a political buss" (.Paul Leicester Ford, The New England Primer, 8'>)