A50170:204
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 has been observed, that they who have spoke many considerable things in their lives, usually speak few at their deaths. But it was otherwise with our Eliot, who after much Speech of and for God in his Life-time, uttered some things little short of Oracles on his Death-Bed; which, 'tis a thousand pities, they were not more exactly regarded and recorded. Those Authors that have taken the pains to Collect, A••p•th•gmata Morientium, have not therein been unserviceable to the Living; but the Apophthegms of a Dying Eliot must have had in them a grace & a strain truly extraordinary; and indeed the vulgar Error of the signal sweetness in the Song of a Dying Swan, was a very Truth in our Expiring Eliot; his last Breath smelt strong of Heaven, and was Articled into none but very gracious Notes; one of the last whereof, was, Welcome Joy! and at last it went away calling upon the slanders by, to, Pray, pray, pray! which was the Thing in which so vast a portion of it, had been before Employed.
It has been observed, that they who have spoke many considerable things in their lives, usually speak few at their deaths. But it was otherwise with our Eliot, who after much Speech of and for God in his Life-time, uttered some things little short of Oracles on his Death-Bed; which, 'tis a thousand pities, they were not more exactly regarded and recorded. Those Authors that have taken the pains to Collect, A••p•th•gmata Morientium, have not therein been unserviceable to the Living; but the Apophtheg•ms of a Dying Eliot must have had in them a grace & a strain truly extraordinary; and indeed the vulgar Error of the signal sweetness in the Song of a Dying Swan, was a very Truth in our Expiring Eliot; his last Breath smelt strong of Heaven, and was Articled into none but very gracious Notes; one of the last whereof, was, Welcome Joy! and at last it went away calling upon the slanders by, to, Pray, pray, pray! which was the Thing in which so vast a portion of it, had been before Employ'd.