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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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I cannot find that any besides the Holy Spirit of God, first moved him to the blessed Work of Evangelizing these perishing Indians; 'twas that Holy Spirit which laid before his mind the Idea of that which is now on the Seal of the Massachuset-Colony; A poor Indian having a Label going from his mouth, with a, COME OVER AND HELP US. It was the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, which enkindled in him a Pity, for the dark dying, damning souls of these Natives, whom the god of this world had blinded, through all the By past Ages. He was none of those that make, The Salvation of the Heathen, an Article of their Creed; b•t (setting aside the unrevealed and extraordinary Steps which the Holy One of Israel may take out of His usual Paths) he thought men to be lost if our Gospel be hidden from them; and he was of the same Opinion with one of the Ancients, who said, Some have endeavoured to prove Plato a Christian, till they prove themselves little better than Heathen. It is indeed a principle in the Turkish Alcoran, That Let a man's Religion be what it will, he shall be saved, if he conscientiously live up to the Rules of it: but our Eliot was no Mahometan. He could most heartily subscribe ⟨p. 76⟩to that passage in the Articles of the Ch. of Eng•. They are to be held accursed, who presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, •nd Light of Nature; For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us, Only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be Saved. And it astonished him to see many dissembling Subscribers of those Articles, while they have grown up to such a Frenzy, as to deny peremptorily all Church-state, and all Salvation to all that are not under Diocesan Bishops, yet at the same time to grant that the Heathen might be saved without the Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. No, it very powerfully moved his holy Bowels, to hear the Thunderclaps of that Imprecation over the heads of our Naked Indians, Pour out thy Fury upon the Heathen that know thee not; and thought he, What shall I do to rescue these Heathen from that all-devouring Fury?
I cannot find that any besides the Holy Spirit of God, first moved him to the blessed Work of Evangelizing these perishing Indians; 'twas that Holy Spirit which laid before his mind the Idaea of that which is now on the Seal of the Massachuset-Colony; A poor Indian having a Label going from his mouth, with a, COME OVER AND HELP US. It was the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, which enkindled in him a Pitty, for the dark dying, damning souls of these Natives, whom the god of this world had blinded, through all the By past Ages. He was none of those that make, The Salvation of the Heathen, an Article of their Creed; bt (setting aside the unrevealed and extraordinary Steps which the Holy One of Israel may take out of His usual Pathes) he thought men to be lost if our Gospel be hidden from them; and he was of the same Opinion with one of the Ancients, who said, Some have endeavoured to prove Plato a Christian, till they prove themselves little better than Heathen. It is indeed a principle in the Turkish Alcoran, That Let a man's Religin be what it will, he shall be saved, if he conscientiously live up to the Rules of it: but our Eliot was no Mahometan. He could most heartily subscribe