A50170:13
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.
My Lord, In one ELIOT, You see what a People 'tis, that You have counted worthy of Your Notice; and what a People 'tis, that with ardent Prayers bespeak the Mercies of Heaven ⟨image 4⟩for Your Noble Family. Indeed, It is Impo• sible that a country So full as New-England is, of what is truly Primitive, should not be exposed unto the bitterest Enmity and Calumny of those, that will strive to entangle the Church in a Sardian Unreformedness, until our Jesus do shortly Make them know, that He has loved, what they have hated, maligned, persecuted. But if the God of New-England have inclined any Great Personage, to Intercede or Interpose for the prevention of the Ruins which ill men have designed for such Country; or to procure for a a People of an Eliot's Complexion in Religion, the Undisturbed Enjoyment and Exercise of that Religion: it is a thing that calls for our most sensible Acknowledgements.
My Lord, In one ELIOT, You see what a People 'tis, that You have counted worthy of Your Notice; and what a People 'tis, that with a•dent Prayers bespeak the Mercies of Heaven ⟨image 4⟩for Your Noble Family. Indeed, It is Impo• sible that a country So full as New-England is, of what is truly Primitive, should not be exposed unto the bitterest Enmity and Calumny of those, that will strive to entangle the Church in a Sardian Unreformedness, until our Jesus do shortly Make them know, that He has loved, what they have hated, maligned, persecuted. But if the God of New-England have inclined any Great Personage, to Intercede or Interpose for the prevention of the Ruines which ill men have designed for such Country; or to procure for a a People of an Eliot's Complexion in Religion, the Undisturbed Enjoyment and Exercise of that Religion: it is a thing that calls for our most sensible Acknowledgments.
It is an odd Superstition which the Indians of this country have among them, that they count it (on the penalty of otherwise never prospering more) necessary for them, never to pass by the Graves of certain famous persons among them, without laying and leaving some Token of Regard thereupon. But we hope that all true Protestants, will count it no more […] what is equal and proper, that the Land which has in it, the Grave of such a Remarkable Preacher to the Indians as our ELIOT, should be treated with such a Love, as a Jerusalem, uses to find from them that are to prosper.