A50170:198
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
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It was Mr. Nehemiah Walter, who being by the unanimous Vote and Choice of the Church there, become the Pastor of Roxbury, immediately found the Venerable Eliot Embracing & Cherishing of him, with the tender Affections of a ⟨p. 137⟩Father. The good Old Man like Old Aaron as it were disrobed himself, with an unspeakable satisfaction, when he beheld his garments put upon a son so dear unto him. After this, he for a year or two before his Translation, could scarce be persuaded unto any public Service, but humbly pleaded, what none but he would ever have said, It would be a wrong to the Souls of the people, for him to do any thing among them, when they were supplied so much to their Advantage otherwise. If I mistake not, the Last that even he Preached was on a Public East; when he fed his people with a very distinct, and useful, Exposition upon the Eighty Third Psalm; and he concluded with an Apology, begging his Hearers to pardon the poorness, and meanness, and brokenness, (as he called it) of his Meditations; but added he, My dear Brother here, will by and by mend all.
It was Mr. Nehemiah Walter, who being by the unanimous Vote and Choice of the Church there, become the Pastor of Roxbury, immediately found the Venerable Eliot Embracing & Cherishing of him, with the tender Affections of a ⟨p. 137⟩Father. The good Old Man like Old Aaron as it were disrobed himself, with an unspeakable satisfaction, when he beheld his garments put upon a son so dear unto him. After this, he for a year or two before his Translation, could scarce be perswaded unto any publick Service, but humbly pleaded, what none but he would ever have said, It would be a wrong to the Souls of the people, for him to do any thing among them, when they were supply'd so much to their Advantage otherwise. If I mistake not, the Last that even he Preached was on a Publick East; when he fed his people with a very distinct, and useful, Exposition upon the Eighty Third Psalm; and he concluded with an Apology, begging his Hearers to pa•don the poorness, and meanness, and b•okenness, (as he called it) of his Meditations; but added he, My dear Brother here, will by'nd by mend all.