A50170:138
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
Part 3 › Annotation b: (b) Mr. Eliot's way of opening the Mysteries of the Gospel to our INDIANS
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(b) Mr. Eliot's way of opening the Mysteries of the Gospel to our INDIANS
Twas in the year 1646. that Mr. Eliot accompanied by three more, gave a visit unto an Assembly of Indians, of whom he desired a Meeting at such a time and place, that he might lay before them the things of the•• Eternal Peace. After a serious Prayer, he gave them a Sermon which continued about a quarter above an hour, and contained the principal Articles of the Christian Religion, applying all to the condition of the Indians present Having done, he asked of them, whether they understood? and with a general reply they answered, They understood all. He then began what was his usual method afterwards in treating with them; that is, he caused them to propound such questions as they pleased, unto himself; and he gave wise and good answers to them all. Their Questions would often, tho' ⟨p. 96⟩not always, refer to what he had newly Preached; and he this way not only made a Proof of their profiting by his Ministry, but also gave an Edge to what he delivered unto them. Some of their Questions would be a little Philosophical, and required a good measure of Learning in the Minister concerned with them; but for this our Eliot wanted not. He would also put proper Questions unto them, and at one of his first Ex•rcises with them, he made the young ones ca•able of regarding those three Questions,
Twas in the year 1646. that Mr. Eliot accompany'd by three more, gave a visit unto an Assembly of Indians, of whom he desired a Meeting at such a time and place, that he might lay before them the things of the•• Eternal Peace. After a serious Prayer, he gave them a Sermon which continued about a quarter above an hour, and contained the principal Articles of the Christian Religion, applying all to the condition of the Indians present Having done, he asked of them, whether they understood? and with a general reply they answered, They understood all. He then began what was his usual method afterwards in treating with them; that is, he caused them to propound such questions as they pleas'd, unto himself; and he gave wise and good answers to them all. Their Questions would often, tho'