A50170:202
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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While he was, thus making his Retreat out of this evil world, his Discourses from time to time ran upon, The Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; it was the Theme which he still had Recourse unto, and we were sure to have something of this, whatever other Subject he were upon. On this he talk d, of this he prayed, for this he longed, and especially when any bad News arrived, his usual reflection thereupon would be, Behold, some of the Clouds, in which we must look for the Coming of the Son of Man. At last, his Lord, for whom he had been long wishing, Lord, come! I have been a great while ready for thy Coming! at last, I say, his Lord came, and fetched him away into the Joy of his Lord.
While he was, thus making his Retreat out of this evil world, his Discourses from time to time ran upon, The Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; it was the Theme which he still had Recourse unto, and we were sure to have something of this, whatever other Subject he were upon. On this he talk d, of this he pray'd, for this he long'd, and especially when any bad News arriv'd, his usual reflection thereupon would be, Behold, some of the Clouds, in which we must look for the Coming of the Son of Man. At last, his Lord, for whom he had been long wishing, Lord, come! I have been a great while ready for thy Coming! at last, I say, his Lord came, and fetched him away into the Joy of his Lord.
He fell into some Languishments, attended with a Fever, which in a few days brought him into the Pangs (may I say? or Joys) of Death, and while he lay in these, Mr. Walter coming to him, he said unto him, brother, •hou art welcome to my very Soul. Pray, Retire to thy Study for me, and give me leave to •e gone; meaning that he should not, by Petitions to Heaven for his Life, detain him •here. It was in these Languishments, that speaking about the work of the Gospel among the Ind ans, he did after this Heavenly manner express himself, There is a Cloud (said he) a dark cloud upon the work of ⟨image 75⟩