A50170:102
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
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Article V. His Church-Discipline.
IT yet more Endears unto us the Memory of our Eliot, that he was not only an Evangelical Minister, but also a true New-English one; ⟨p. 62⟩he was a Protestant, and a Puritan, and one very full of that Spirit which acted the first Planters of this Country, in their peaceable Secession from the unwarrantable things elsewhere imposed upon their Consciences. The Judgment and Practice of one that readily underwent all the misery attending the Infancy of this Plantation, for the sake of a true Church-order, is a thing which we young people should count worthy to be enquired after; and since we saw him so well behaving himself in the House of God, it cannot but be worth while to know what he thought about the Frame, and Form, and Constitution of that blessed House.
IT yet more Endears unto us the Memory of our Eliot, that he was not only an Evangelical Minister, but also a true New-English one; ⟨p. 62⟩he was a Protestant, and a Puritan, and one very full of that Spirit which acted the first Planters of this Country, in their peaceable Secession from the unwarrantable things elsewhere impos'd upon their Consciences. The Judgment and Practice of one that readily underwent all the misery attending the Infancy of this Plantation, for the sake of a true Church-order, is a thing which we young people should count worthy to be enq•ired after; and since we saw him so well behaving himself in the House of God, it cannot but be worth while to know what he thought about the Frame, and Form, and Constitution of that blessed House.