A50170:194
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 CONCLUSION. Or, ELIOT Expiring.
BY this time, I have doubtless made my Readers loth to have me tell what now remains of this little History; doubtless they are wishing that this John might have Tarried until the Second Coming of our Lord. But, alas All-Devouring Death at last snatched him from us, and slighted all those Lamentations of ours, My Father, My Father, the Chariots of Israel, and the Horsemen there f!
BY this time, I have doubtless made my Readers loth to have me tell what now remains of this little History; doubtless they are wishing that this John might have Tarried until the Second Coming of our Lord. But, alas All-Devouring Death at last snatch'd him from us, and slighted all those Lamentations of ours, My Father, My Father, the Chariots of Israel, and the Horsemen there f!
When he was become a sort of Miles Emeritus, & began to draw near ••s End, he grew still more Heavenly, more Savoury, more Divine, and Scented more of th• spicy Country, at which he was ready to put a shore. As the Historian observes of Liberius. That when his Life and Strength were going from him, his Vice •et remained with him; on the contrary, the ⟨p. 136⟩