A50170:131
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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having finished his grammar, at the Close he writes, Prayers and Pains through Faith in Christ ⟨p. 87⟩Jesus will do any thing! and being by his Prayers & Pains thus furnished, he set himself in the Year 1646, to preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, among these Desolate outcasts.
having finished his grammar, at the Close he writes, Prayers and Pains thro Faith in Christ ⟨p. 87⟩Jesus will do any thing! and being by his Prayers & Pains thus furnished, he set himself in the Year 1646, to preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, among these Desolate outcasts.
¶ It remains, that I lay before the world, the Remarkable Conduct and Success of this Famous Man, in his great Affair; and I shall endeavour, to do it, by Englishing and Rep•inting a letter, sent a while since by my Father, unto his Learned and Renowned correspondent, the Venerable Dr. Leusden at Utrecht: which letter has already been published, if I mistake not, in Four or Five divers Languages. I find it particularly published, by the most Excellent Jurieu, at the end of a Pastoral Letter; and this Reflection then worthily made upon it, Cette Letter doit apporter une •res grande Consolation, a touts less bonnes ames, qui sont altereos de Justice, & qui sont enflammees d• ••le de la gloire de Dieu. I therefore persuade my self that the Republication of it will not •e ungrateful unto many good Souls in our Nation, who have a due thirst and zeal for such things as are mentioned in it; and when that is done, I shall presume to make some Annotations for the illustration of sundry memorable things therein Pointed at.
¶ It remains, that I lay before the world, the Remarkable Conduct and Success of this Famous Man, in his great Affayr; and I shall endeavour, to do it, by Englishing and Repinting a letter, sent a while since by my Father, unto his Learned and Renoun'd correspondent, the Venerable Dr. Leusden at Ʋtrecht: which letter has already been published, if I mistake not, in Four or Five divers Languages. I find it particularly published, by the most Excellent Jurieu, at the end of a Pasoral Letter; and this Refliecton then worthily made upon it, Cette Lettre doit apporter une res grande Consolation, a toutes les bonnes ames, qui sont altereos de Justice, & qui sont enflammees d le de la gloire de Dieu. I therefore perswade my self that the Republication of it will not e ungrateful unto many good Souls in our Nation, who have a due thirst and zeal for such things as are mention'd in it; and when that is done, I shall presume to make some Anntations for the illustration of sundry memorable things therein Pointed at.