A50170:205
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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This was the peace, in the end of this Perfect and upright man; thus was there another Star fetched away to be placed among the Rest that the third Heaven is now enriched with. He had o••e, I think, a pleasant Fear, that the old saints of h•• Acquaintance, especially those two dearest […] •b•uts of h•s, Cotton, of Boston, and Mather, of D••••••er, which were got safe to Heaven before him, would suspect him to be gone the w•o•g way, because he staid so long behind them. But they are now together with a blessed J•••s, beholding of his Glory, and celebrating the High Praises of Him that has call d them into his marvellous light. Whether Heaven was any more Heaven to him, because of his finding there, so many Saints with whom he once had his Delicious and Celestial Intimacies, yea, and so many Saints which had been the seals of his own Ministry, in this lower world, I cannot say; but it would be Heaven enough unto him, to go unto that Jesus, whom he had loved, preached, served, and in whom he had been long Assured, there does All Fullness awell. In that Heaven I now leave him: but not without Grynaeus's pathetical Exclamations, [O beatum illum diem!] Blessed will be the Day, O blessed the Day of our Arrival to the glorious Assembly of Spirits, which this great Saint is now rejoicing with!
This was the peace, in the end of this Perfect and upright man; thus was there another Star fetched away to be placed among the Rest that the third Heaven is now enriched with. He had o••e, I think, a pleasant Fear, that the old saints of h•• Aq•aintance, especially those two dearest 〈…〉 •b•uts of h•s, Cotton, of Boston, and Mather, of D••••••er, which were got safe to Heaven befoe him, would suspect him to be gone the wog way, because he staid so long behind thm. But they are now together with a blessed Js, beholding of his Glory, and celebrating the High Praises of Him that has call d them into his marvellous light. Whether Heaven was any more Heaven to him, because of his finding there, so many Saints with whom he once had his Delicious and Caelestial Intimacies, yea, and so many Saints which had been the seals of his own Ministry, in this lower world, I cannot say; but it would be Heaven enough unto him, to go unto that Jesus, whom he had lov'd, preach'd, serv'd, and in whom he had been long Assured, there does All Fullness awell. In that Heaven I now leave him: but not without Grynaeus's pathetical Exclamations, [O beatum illum diem!] Blessed will be the Day, O blessed the Day of our Arrival to the glorious Assembly of Spirits, which this great Saint is now rejoycing vvith!