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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
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.
The LIFE of the Renowned JOHN ELIOT
Sic mihi contingat vivere, sicque mori▪
The Introduction.
'Twas a very surprising as well as an undoubted Accident which happened within the memory of Millions yet alive, when certain Shepherds upon Mount N•bo, following part of their straggling Flock, at length came to a Valley, the prodigious Depths and Rocks whereof rendered it almost inaccessible; in which there was a Cave of inexpressible sweetness, and in that Cave was a Sepulchre that had very difficult Characters upon it. The Patriarchs of the Maronites thereabouts inhab ting, procured some learned Persons to take Notice, and make Report of this Curiosity, who ••und the Inscription of the Grave-stone to be •n the Hebrew Language and Letter, Moses, the Servant of the Lo•d, The Jews, the Greeks, & •he Roman Catholics, thereabouts, were all together by the ears for the possession of this Rarity, but the Lu•k as quickly said Claim unto t, and strongly guarded it. Nevertheless, the