A50170:176
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 h: (h) The sacred and solemn Exercises performed in the Indian Congregations.
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.
Let us then Offer a clean and pure Sacrifice, as Noah did; so God will smell a favour of Rest, and he will with-hold the Rain, and Bless us with such Fruitful Seasons as we are desiring of him.
Thus preached an Indian called Nish•kkon, above thirty years ago; and since that I suppose, they have grown a little further into the New-English way of preaching: you may have i• their sermons, a Ku•kooton•wehtea•nk that is, a ⟨p. 120⟩Doctrine, Nahto•to•wch••aonk, or, an Answer, a, Wi•chea•evonk, or, a Reason, with an Ouworeank, or, an, U•• for the close of all.
Thus preached an Indian called Nish•kkon, above thirty years ago; and since that I suppose, they have grown a little further into the New-English way of preaching: you may have i• their sermons, a Ku•kooton•wehtea•nk that is, a ⟨p. 120⟩Doctrine, Nahto•to•wch••aonk, or, an Answer, a, Wicheaeuonk, or, a Reason, with an Ouworeank, or, an, U for the close of all.