A50170:10
The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John…
The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John Eliot, a person justly famous in the church of God, not only as an eminent Christian and an excellent minister among the English, but also as a memorable evangelist among the Indians of New-England : with some account concerning the late and strange success of the Gospel in those parts of the world which for many ages have lain buried in pagan ignorance / written by Cotton Mather.The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John Eliot, a person justly famous in the church of God, not only as an eminent Christian and an excellant minister among the English, but also as a memorable evangelist amoung the Indians of New-England : with some account concerning the late and strange success of the Gospel in those parts of the world which for many ages have lain buried in pagan ignorance / written by Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris and John Allen for Joseph Brunning, 1691
Dedication: To the Right Honourable PHILIP Lord WHARTON. A no less Noble than Aged PATRON of LEARNI…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IF it be considered, that some Evangelical and Apostolical Histories of the New-Testament, were by the Direction of the Holy Spirit Himself, Dedicated unto a Person of Quality, and tha• the Noble Person Addressed with One such Dedication, entertained it with Resentments that encouraged his dear Lucillius to make a Second, the world Will be satisfied that I do a thing but Reasonable and Agreeable, when, unto a Narrative of many Evangelical and Apostolical Affairs, I presume to prefix the Name of one so Excellent for Love to God, as Your Lordship is known to be: and One ⟨image 3⟩upon this account only, an Unmeet subject for th• praises of the obscure pen which now writes, tha• Quis Vituperat? I do not, I dare not, so far Intrude upon Your Honour, as to ask Your Patronage unto all the New-English Principles & Practices, which are found in the Character of our Celebrated ELIOT; for; as the Distance of a Thousand Leagues, ha• made it impossible for me to attend the (usual) Orders and Manners of asking first Your Allowance for what I have openly Entitled you unto; so, the Renowned ELIOT is gone beyond any occasions for the greatest Humane Patronage.
IF it be considered, that some Evangelical and Apostolical Histories of the New-Testament, were by the Direction of the Holy Spirit Himself, Dedicated unto a Person of Quality, and tha• the Noble Person Addressed with One such Dedica•i•n, entertained it with Resentments that encouraged his dear Lucillius to make a Second, the world Will be satisfy'd that I do a thing but Reas•nable and Agreeable, when, unto a Narrative of many Evangelical and Apostolical Affa•rs, I presume to prefix the Name of one so Excellent for Love to God, as Your Lordship is known to be: and One ⟨image 3⟩upon this account only, an Unmeet subject for th• praises of the obscure pen which now writes, tha Quis Vituperat? I do not, I dare not, so far Intrude upon Your Honour, as to ask Your Patronage unto all the New-English Principles & Practices, which are found in the Character of our Celebrated ELIOT; for; as the Distance of a Thousand Leagues, ha made it impossible for me to attend the (usual) Orders and Manners of asking first Your Allowance for what I have openly Entitled you unto; so, the Renowned ELIOT is gone beyond any occasions for the greatest Humane Paronage.