A50170:159
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 f: (f) The Indian-Churches at Mashippaug, and elsewhere.
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(f) The Indian-Churches at Mashippaug, and elsewhere.
The same spirit which acted Mr. Eliot, quickly Inspired others elsewhere, to prosecute the work of rescuing the poor Indians out of their worse than Egyptian-Darkness, in which Evil Angels had been so long preying upon them. One of these was the Godly and Gracious Richard Bourn, who soon saw a great effect of his Holy Labours. In the 1666. Mr. Eliot accompanied by the Honourable Governor, and several Magistrates and Ministers of Plymouth-Colony, procured a vast Assembly at Mashippaug; and there a good number of Indians, made confessions touching the knowledge and belief, and Regeneration of their Souls, with such ander•tanding and affection as was extremely grateful to the pious Auditory. Yet such was the strictness of the good people in this Affair, that before they would countenance the advancement of these Indians unto Church-Fellowship, they ordered their Confessions to be written and sent unto all the Churches in the Colony, for their Approbation; but so approved they were, that afterwards the Messengers of all the Churches giving their presence and consent, they became a Church, and chose Mr. Bourn to be their Pastor; who was then by Mr. Eliot and Mr. Cotton ⟨p. 110⟩Ordained unto that Office over them. From hence Mr. Eliot and Mr. Cotton went over to an Island called Martha's Vineyard, where God had so succeeded the honest Labours of some, & particularly of the Mayhew's, as that a Church was gathered.
THe same spirit which acted Mr. Eliot, quickly Inspired others elsewhere, to prosecute the work of rescuing the poor Indians out of their worse than Egyptian-Darkness, in which Evil Angels had been so long preying upon them. One of these was the Godly and Gracious Richard Bourn, who soon saw a great effect of his Holy Labours. In the 1666. Mr. Eliot accompany'd by the Honourable Governour, and several Magistrates and Ministers of Plymouth-Colony, procured a vast Assembly at Mashippaug; and there a good number of Indians, made confessions touching the knowledge and belief, and Regeneration of their Souls, with such andertanding and affection as was extreamly grateful to the pious Auditory. Yet such was the strictness of the good people in this Affair, that before they would countenance the advanaement of these Indians unto Church-Fellowship, they ordered their Confessions to be written and sent unto all the Churches in the Colony, for their Approbation; but so approv'd they were, that afterwards the Messengers of all the Churches giving their prsence and consent, they became a Church, and chose Mr. Bourn to be their Pastor; who was then by Mr. Eliot and Mr. Cotton